lanceolate or oblong, five or six inches long, an inch or an 
inch and a half broad at the middle, glaucescent, glabrous. 
Peduncle obscurely pubescent, about as long as the leaves. 
Perianth subcampanulate, two or two and a half inches 
long in the cultivated plant, yellow, red or white; 
segments subequal, oblong-cuneate, subobtuse, with a 
bright orange concolorous claw. Stamens an inch long; 
anthers linear, lemon-yellow; filaments bright orange, 
glabrous, flattened. Ovary cylindrical-trigonous, nearly 
an inch long; stigmas large, suborbicular, undulated.— 
J. G. Baker. 
Figs. 1 and 2, Segments of the perianth, from two different flowers, life-size ; 
3, a stamen ; 4, pistil:—both enlarged. 
