of some length, above bifariously patent, lorately lanceolate, 
pointed, flat, from one to two inches broad. Scape ancipital, 
from a foot and a half to two feet high. Spathe with one or 
several flowers, herbaceous, lanceolate, rounded at the points, 
upright, equal to the tube. Flowers sessile, funnelform, 
white, extremely fragrant: tube obtusely triquetral, straight, 
3 inches or more in length, green: limb wholly white, 
nearly upright, turbinately campanulate, but little shorter 
than the tube, recurved at the top, entirely detached from 
the crown, segments narrow, linearly lanceolate, keeled, 
involutely channelled below. Crown white, cyathiform, 
large, somewhat wider across, nearly as long as the limb, 
cut above into six lobes, incisures staminiferous lobes 
rounded erosely denticulate, shallowly cleft in the centre; 
on the inside, marked with six green rays descending from 
the base of the filaments. Stamens equal to the lobes of 
the crown, three upper ones infracted and pointing down 
the inside of the crown towards the bottom, 3 lower con- 
nivent and inflectent; filaments white, subulate; anthers 
with deep yellow pollen. Capsule bulbispermous. 
