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front, keeled and with a thin white silvery pellicle beneath ; sheathing base 
black, at the extreme base white and fleshy, glabrous or clothed with 
copious long white silky hairs. Male flowers: Scape stout,, much shorter 
than the leaves, densely silky below, panicled ; branches few, 5-8, simple, 
3-9 in. long, lin. broad with the flowers on; bracts at the base of the 
branches very large, leafy, acuminate. Flowers very numerous, densely 
crowded, din, long, pale lemon-yellow; pedicels slender, 7 1n., each sub- 
tended by a linear bract. Perianth 6-partite ; segments reflexed, linear, 
obtuse, silky externally. Stamens as long as the segments; anthers linear, 
erect, sagittate at the base... Memale flawrana+-Geam——*~ 8 “ed as in 
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very stout, erect or inclined, 6 in. to 2 ft. long, thickening upwards to the base 
of the panicle, where it is sometimes 14 in. diam., obtusely triquetrous; lower 
portion shaggy with copious long silky hairs; upper part silky or glabrate. 
Panicle 4-15 in. long, much-branched ; bracts very long, lanceolate, gradually 
narrowed upwards into long attenuated points. Flowers 4-3in. diam. ; 
pedicels 5-4in. long. Perianth-segments ovate-lanceolate, spreading, 
ultimately reflexed. Stamens as long as the segments; filaments subulate ; 
anthers broadly oblong. Female flowers: Scape as in the male, but 
shorter ; panicle much shorter and more compact; branches fewer, short, 
stiff, erect. Flowers smaller, crowded; pedicels very short. Perianth- 
seoments smaller. Ovary broadly conical, faintly grooved, 3-celled ; ovules 
