green, rather fleshy, six to eight inches long by more than half 
as broad, with many distinct arching ribs. Peduncle one to 
one and a half foot long, slightly compressed. Flowers six 
to eight in an umbel ; spathe-yalves lanceolate ; pedicels half 
to three-quarters inch long ; unexpanded flowers suberect ; 
expanded flowers horizontal or drooping, scentless. Ovary 
green, oyoid-trigonous, quarter inch long ; perianth pure 
white, funnel-shaped, one and a half inch long, the oblong 
segments half as long as the. tube, spreading falcate! y when 
the flower is fully expanded. Stamens inserted at the throat 
of the tube, about half as long as the segments ; filaments 
linear; sometimes entirely without any tooth, sometimes 
furnished with a more or less distinct tooth at the base on 
one or both sides ; anthers yellow, linear-oblong ; style as long 
as the perianth, obtusely lobed at the stigmatose tip. — J. G. 
Baker. 
Fig. 1. Flower, cut open ; 2, horizontal section of the ovary \-both magnified . 
