cence three feet high in the specimen drawn, consisting of 
three branches; main peduncle very stout, ancipitous, a 
foot long below the lowest branch; racemes dense, cylin- 
drical, half a foot or a foot long, three inches in diameter ; 
pedicels ascending, cernuous at the tip, the lower half or 
three-quarters of an inch long ; bracts ovate, acute, shorter 
than the pedicels. Perianth cylindrical, an inch and a 
quarter or an inch and a half long; tube very short ; outer 
segments bright red; inner whitish, with a red keel. 
Stamens as long as the perianth; anthers oblong, reddish- 
yellow. Style longer than the ampulleform ovary, reaching 
to the tip of the perianth-segments.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, The whole plant, much reduced; 2, leaf, natural size; 3, raceme, 
natural size; 4, a single flower; 5, flower, with perianth-segments cut away ; 
6 and 7, stamens ; 8, pistil; 9, ovary; 10, horizontal section of ovary :—all more 
or less enlarged. 
