blade 6 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, ovate, cucullate, acuminate, 

 3-keeled. Stamens inserted at the junction of the claw and 

 blade ; filaments 9 mm. long, terete ; anthers 3 mm. long, 

 elliptic. Ovary 6 mm. long, 2*5 mm. in diameter, ellipsoid, 

 subtrigonous ; styles free, 8 mm. long, terete ; stigma simple. 



Plate 53. — Fig. 1, plant viewed from above (reduced) ; Fig. 2, in- 

 florescence ; Fig. 3, flower with bract ; Fig. 4, perianth segment with stamen, 

 front view ; Fig. 5, perianth segment with stamen, side view ; Fig. 6, 

 gynaecium. 



F.P.S.A., 1922. 



