rootstock short-creeping, slender; root-fibres slender, wiry; leaves of the radical rosette narrow, linear, firm in texture, glaucous, 6–9 in. long, 1/12 in. broad, closely ribbed; stems a foot or more long, slender, flexuose, forked low down, rarely simple, terete; clusters several, arranged in a lax corymb, the ascending long peduncles ancipitous at the top; outer bract small, rigid, lanceolate; spathes 1/3 in. long; outer valves with a firm keel and broad, white, membranous border, not lacerated; perianth-limb 1/2 in. long; capsule oblong, very acutely angled, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, or a short pedicel. null