- base above two inches broad; lamina six or eight inches 
long, an inch and a half broad above the middle, deltoid 
and cuspidate at the apex, bright green and glabrous on 
both surfaces. Peduncle central, erect, three or four inches 
long, quite hidden by the imbricated bract-leaves. Spike 
simple, erect, distichous, five or six inches long, two inches 
broad ; flowers ten or twelve; bracts ovate-navicular, an 
inch and a half long and broad, all except the lowest, which 
are greenish, bright red, with a narrow yellow border. 
Calyx nearly as long as the bract, pale yellow; sepals 
lanceolate. Corolla cylindrical, bright lemon-yellow, pro- 
truded half an inch beyond the bract; petals obtuse, with 
a spreading tip tinged with green, appendiculate at the 
base with two half-adnate scales. Stamens rather longer 
than the petals; anthers linear, slightly versatile; pollen 
bright yellow. Pistil a little longer than the stamens ; 
stigmatic lobes orbicular, spreading.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Whole plant, much reduced ; 2, whole plant; 3, a flower, both life-size ; 
7 ah 5, front view of anther; 6, back view of anther; 7, stigma :—al/ en- 
arged, 
