Descr. Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, erect, stout, 
clothed with pale leaf sheaths. Leaves four to six inches 
long, elliptic-lanceolate, produced at the apex into a very 
slender acuminate point, and at the base into a short broad 
concave petiole, dark green above, paler and tinged with 
red beneath; sheath one and a half to two inches long, 
mouth red and ciliolate. Flowers clustered, two and a 
half to three inches in diameter. Calyx one inch long, 
tubular, unequally trifid. Corolla narrowly funnel-shaped, 
twice as long as the calyx, lobes very variable, oblanceolate 
or oblong, ovate, obtuse or acute. Lip circular, bright 
orange-red, undulated and expanded horizontally, ir- 
regularly crenate. Anther sessile; connective hooded, 
oblong, golden yellow, hairy at the back, tip suddenly 
contracted into an inflexed beak, base cordate; anther- 
cells broad. Stigma small, urceolately funnel-shaped.— 
m fa EN: 8 
Fig. 1, Bracts, calyx and base of corolla-tube; 2, front, and 3, side view of 
anther; 4, stigma; 5, transverse section of ovary; 6, ovules :—adl enlarged. 
