plant 1/2–1 (2/3–1 1/2 ft., Schlechter) ft. high; stem solitary, simple, slender, more or less puberulous on the upper part; leaves erect or ascending, 2 1/4–3 1/2 in. long, 1/2 lin. broad, linear-filiform, with revolute margins, acute, glabrous; umbels 1–3, pedunculate, globose, densely many-flowered, 1/2– 2/3 in. in diam.; peduncles 2/3–2 1/4 in. long; bracts 1 1/2 lin. long, linear-subulate; pedicels very short, scarcely 1/2 lin. long, puberulous; sepals 1 3/4–2 lin. long, 2/3 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, puberulous; corolla-lobes 3 lin. long, 1 1/4 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, acute, suberect, slightly concave at the basal part, slightly convex with revolute margins above, recurved at the apex, glabrous on both sides, apparently greenish, more or less tinted with purple-brown on the back; corona-lobes much overtopping the staminal column, erect and slightly incurved-connivent at the middle, 2–2 1/4 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, stalked, with the oblong or ovate-oblong obtuse blade about 2 1/2 times as long as the linear stalk, cordate or cordate-sagittate at the base, concave on the back, thickened on the upper half of the inner face into a stout 2-ridged keel, which ends at the middle of the lobe in a small flap resting on the top of the basal keels; alternating with the lobes at their base are 5 minute almost rudimentary filaments; staminal column 1 1/4 lin. long, subglobose; anther-cells curved on the back, very firm, with a membranous connective between them, triangularly thickened at the truncate apex, from which, in young flowers, the broadly ovate obtuse anther-appendages are horizontally inflexed, overlap and form a pentagonal white canopy, entirely concealing the small knob-like style-apex and top of the column, but are soon eaten away by insects; pollen-masses flattened, crescent-like, obtuse at both ends, slightly translucent near the free end; caudicles about twice as long as the pollen-masses, slender, slightly curved at the upper half, shortly and abruptly very much curved at the lower half, attached to a minute black pollen-carrier. null
