long. Scape as long as the leaves, erect, rounded, smooth, 
dark green. Raceme straight, cylindrical, spiked, six inches 
long. Bracts subulate, withered, longer than the unex- 
panded flowers. Flower-stalks smooth, spreading in flower, 
erect in fruit. Flowers green, spreading; sepals flat, ob- 
long, obtuse, the inner rather more erect than the outer. 
Stamens erect, standing round the pistil, shorter than the 
sepals, inserted exactly between the base of the sepals and 
the ovary. Filaments of two forms; those opposite the in- 
ner sepals dilated, 2-toothed; those opposite the outer se- 
pals subulate. Anthers small, oblong, versatile. Ovary 3- 
cornered, oblong; the angles opposite the outer sepals. 
Style subulate. Stigma simple. 
The Aistivation of the flower is valvular, in a double 
YOW. 
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