divided, leafy at the ramifications. Racemes cernuous, 
many-flowered ; pedicles aggregate, 2 or 3, rarely solitary, 
jointed in the middle; common bractea ovate-linear, partial 
ones minute, scale-like. . Perianth white, reflexed, 6-leaved, 
after flowering convolute, and rising upwards ; outer sepals 
oblong, narrow, inner twice as wide, wavy at the edge. 
Stamens 6, inserted under the ovary, erect, a little shorter 
than the sepals, regular; filaments above the middle villous, 
yellow; anthers purple, linear, innate, with white pollen. 
Ovary small, roundish, 6-nerved, smooth. Style declinate, 
purple. Stigma a fringed point. The hairs of the fila- 
ments are simple and jointed; all the joints are round, 
except the last, which is cylindrical and long. x 
J. L. 
