bear the flowers in very lax secund racemes ; lower flowers 
in pairs, the upper ones solitary ; 'pedicels spreading or 
cernuous, reaching half an inch in length, articulated at the 
middle, the upper joint whitish and thickened. Perianth 
white, measuring half an inch in diameter when expanded ; 
outer segments firmer, lanceolate, acute ; inner broader, more 
tender, oblong, obtuse. Stamens distinctly shorter than the 
perianth-segments ; anthers minute, oblong ; filaments appen- 
diculate with an oblong-sagittate pilose struma in the upper 
half, naked and rather flattened in the lower half. Ovary 
sessile, oblong ; style short, erect ; stigma capitate. — J. G. 
Baker. 
Fig. 1, an entire flower ; fig. 2, a single stamen ; fig. 3, the pistil : — all mag - 
nified. 
