two feet long, spreading on the ground; the inner sheath 
suberect ; sheath broad, membranous, two to four inches long; | 
blade grass-like, very slender, scarcely a quarter of an inch in 
diameter, flaccid, bright green, with a few scattered hairs on 
the margins and keel, back semicylindric, face concave, 
nerves five to seven, obscure. Scapes several, much shorter 
than the leaves, glabrous below the upper part as well as 
the flowers densely villous with long silky hairs. Uméel 
4—5-flowered, bracts very slender, tiliform, subulate, shorter 
than the flowering pedicels, which are one half to three 
quarters of an inch long. Ovary turbinate. Perianth one 
and a half inches in diameter, golden yellow within, outer 
segments lanceolate, subacute, green and villous at the back ; 
-inner rather broader, with a dorsal green villous midrib. 
Stamens epigynous, very small, filaments short, subulate, as 
long as the ovate-cordate small short anthers. S%yle shortly 
columnar from a conical base, stigma conic obtuse undivided. 
Capsule opening at the top only. Seeds several in each cell, 
globose, testa black, punctulate—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ovary, style and stigma; 2, transverse section of ditto; 3, seed :— 
all magnified. 
