Excerpt from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, or Flower-Garden Displayed, 1837, Vol. 64: In Which the Most Ornamental Foreign Plants Cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, Are Accurately Represented and Coloured; Vol. XI of the New Series
Perianthium declinatum, tubo infra abbreviato, mem brana fauciali non annulari, limbo quater dispare; Scapus baccus cavus, capsule. Trivalvis, semina testfi nigra.