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Information Leaves 4–10 × 0.5–0.9 dm; blade with transverse white- or yellow-mottled bands, flat, glabrous, margins often yellow, entire, tufted. Inflorescences paniculate, surpassing leaves, 6 dm. Flowers: tepals greenish white to pale pink, 25–40 mm, limb lobes recurved, linear, 14–18 mm; filaments surpassing lobes; ovary 5 mm; style filiform, to 4 mm; stigma capitate. Berries red, globose, 8 mm diam.

Information Herbs, perennial, erect, from thick rhizomes. Leaves basal, erect; blade often variegated and mottled, elongate, thick, flat or cylindrical, rigid. Inflorescences paniculate, racemose, or spicate. Flowers bisexual; tepals basally connate into tube, white, yellowish white, pale pink, or greenish white, tips narrow; ovary superior. Fruits baccate. Seeds 1–3. x = 9, 19, 20, 21, 33.

Information Acaulescent perennials forming large colonies; rhizome subterranean, 1.2–2.5 cm thick. Leaves rosulate, 2–8, lanceolate to broadly linear, 60–85≈4–8 mm, flat to somewhat incurved, smooth to slightly rough, subulate tip 0.5 cm long, acute, hard but not horny, margin bright red, entire, 1 mm wide, with a pale membranous edge easily peeling off, with irregular, paler horizontal areas, conspicuous banding may fade with age; keeled towards the base, petiole 20–25 cm long; basal scaly leaves 2–3, 8–12≈4–6 cm, membranous, apex slightly obtuse, with distinct veins. Inflorescence an erect raceme, 65–70(–75) cm long, axis 0.4–0.6 cm wide; flowers 4–5(–7) per cluster, 2–2.5 cm apart, subtended by 0.4–0.5 cm long membranous bracteoles; pedicels 0.4–0.7(–0.9) cm long. Flower perianth (26–)30–40(–65) mm long; tube 14–20 mm long, lobes cream to pale mauve, 16–20 mm long; filaments ± 2 cm long, thin, anthers yellow, 0.3–0.4 cm long. Fruit orange or yellow, globose, shortly stipitate; seeds globose, ± 8 mm in diameter, the epidermis thick.

Information Acaulescent, rhizomatous perennials forming large colonies. Rhizome and roots typical. Leaves rosulate, ± 2-8, lanceolate to broadly linear, up to ± 600 x 40-80 mm, flat to somewhat in­curved, with irregular, paler horizontal areas, margin entire with a thin, red and pale, mem­branous edge. Inflorescence a simple raceme, erect, dense, many-flowered, up to 0,45 m high; peduncle short, firm. Flowers irregularly clus­tered on small, raised areas, subtended by small bracts, opening towards evening, delicately scented. Perianth ± 30-40 mm long, lobes + 20 mm long, cream or pale mauve. Stamens exserted; filaments thin; anthers versatile, yellow. Fruit shortly stipitate, globular, orange or yellow; seeds globose, + 8 mm in diameter, epidermis thick. Figure 2.

Information leaves 8–15 in a cluster, semiterete, 1/2–1 ft. long, an inch broad at the base, 1/3– 1/2 in. thick at the middle, rounded on the back, deeply channelled down the face, margined with a distinct red line; peduncle a foot or more long; raceme dense, cylindrical, 1/2–1 ft. long; pedicels 3–6-nate, 1/12– 1/6 in. long, articulated above the middle; perianth 1 1/4 in. long; segments about as long as the tube; stamens shorter than the segments; anthers oblong, 1/8 in. long; style exserted beyond the tip of the segments. null

Information Acaulescent herb, 60 cm long; rhizome subterranean, whitish to green, 2.5–3.8 cm thick. Leaves ascending or ascending-spreading, (3–)4–5, elliptic, stiffly coriaceous, oblong or broadly lanceolate, 30–60(–90)≈8.8–15 (–17) cm, 2–3 mm thick at the middle, flat, narrowed and convolute at base, slightly rough, acute, subulate tip 0.4–0.6 cm long, margins 0.1 cm wide, slightly wavy, hardened, narrow membranous edges when young soon disappearing, dull glaucous-green to somewhat bluish green, transverse bars irregular lighter green on both surfaces but more conspicuous on lower surface; slightly petiolate. Inflorescence 41–60 cm high, axis 0.8–1 cm thick near base, upper two-thirds a compact spike-like raceme; lower inflorescence bracts 4–5, ovate, 1.3–1.9≈1.3–1.9 cm, obtuse, distant, membranous; bracteoles membranous, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 0.3–0.6 cm long, acute; pedicels 0.2–0.4 cm long, jointed at apex, with scarcely any deciduous part. Flowers white to grey-white; tube 1.2–1.6(–1.9) cm long, rounded at base, lobes linear, 1.5–1.9 cm long, obtuse, revolute; filaments 1.6–1.8 cm long, anthers 0.3 cm long; style 3.6–4 cm long. Fruit a globose berry; brownish yellow on ripening.

Information Rootstock wide-creeping, as thick as a man's finger. Leaves 3–6 to a node, lanceolate, nearly flat above the base, 3–4 ft. long, 2 1/2–5 in. broad at the middle, more or less distinctly mottled with white, sometimes bordered with a thin line of red within the white edge. Peduncle 1–1 1/2 ft. long, with 3–4 scariose bract-leaves. Raceme dense, 1 1/2–2 ft. long, about 3 in. diam.; flowers 3–6 in a cluster; bracts small, oblong-lanceolate; pedicels 1/6– 1/4 in. long, articulated at the middle. Perianth 1 1/2–2 in. long, white, tinged with green or brown; lobes as long as the tube. Stamens as long as the perianth-lobes. Style finally much exserted.