letely and roundedly 3-cornered, flatter on one side, 
straight, half a foot long, about as thick as a crow-quill, 
not glaucous, nor with a root-sheath as in ALBuca exuviata. 
Scape a foot or more high, round, upright, glaucous, much 
thicker than the leaves; raceme terminal, loosely set, many- 
flowered, spreading, half a foot long or more. Peduncles 
spreading, about half an inch long. Bractes shorter than 
the peduncles, membranous, whitish, acuminate. Corolla 
fronting the horizon, succulent, tender, soon collapsing, 
more than an inch in diameter, subrotate; segments not 
touching each other above, oblong, obtuse, bent inwards 
at the top, whitish, on the outside and at the top suffused 
in part with a dullish brown purple, traversed longitudi- 
nally by a green stripe deeply keeled on the outside. Sta- 
mens twice shorter than the corolla, equal smooth, slightly 
declined: filaments subulate: anthers deep yellow, upright, 
widely dehiscent at the ends. Pistil about equal to the 
corolla: germen oblong, prism-shaped, with two-ribbed 
corners: style purplish, thickish, linearly three-cornered, 
declined, rising again with a gentle curve: stigma hollow, 
open, slightly trifid, pubescent. 
There are some slight discrepancies between our plant 
and Jacquin’s figure and description of the pistil, which we 
suspect arise from an oversight in the draughtsman, rather 
than that they are real distinctions. 
