It differs from the other species we are acquainted with, 
by the shortness of the tube and filaments, the last of which 
scarcely equal the dwarf lobules of the crown. And we did 
not find in the bloom the delightful fragrance of its con- 
geners. It belongs to that division of the genus whose 
species have the filaments placed distinctly in the alternate 
intervals of the teeth of the crown, as opposed to that 
whose species have filaments which are not distinct in the 
intervals, but confluent with six of the teeth. 
Leaves bifarious, several, cylindrically. sheathed below, 
diverging from thence, lorately elongated, sublanceolate, 
glaucous, obtusely acuminate, slightly involuted, obscurely 
nerved, contracted downwards, at the broadest of the blade 
about an inch and half across, in height a foot and half or 
more. cape outside the foliage, which it nearly equals, 
compressed, glaucous. Spathe lanceolate, cuspidate, longer 
than the peduncles. Umbel white, 7-8-flowered, upright, 
slightly scented; peduncles angular, ‘nearly equal sto the 
flewer.. Germen but. little shorter. than the tube of the 
corolla, oblong, linear, three-sided,. about twice the, thick- 
ness of the flower-stalk; rudiments of seeds numerous in 
each cell, in two, rows. Corolla about’an inch ‘and ‘half 
long, or rather more, tube green, slender, six-fluted,. tri- 
angular, scarcely half the length of the limb ; limb stellate, 
downwards. adhering shortly to the'crown, segments nar- 
Tow-lanceolate, the three. outermost’ broadest: érown one 
third shorter than the limb, inversely conical, spread at the 
mouth, and cut into twelve angular .equalentire lobules 
or teeth...Filaments very short, in the intervals between the 
airs-of teeth,.to which they are equal, connivent: anthers 
yellow, bent. into crescents, after parting with ‘the’ pollen, 
balancing, as. long as the filaments or longer, Style trian- 
rularly filiform, inclining, curved, substantial, length of 
the flower: Stigma an obtuse point, but little enlarged, 
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