one to two feet long, and two to three inches broad, linear, 
abruptly acuminate, with a brown rigid tip, concave, pale 
green with innumerable parallel dark green veins and cross 
veins. Scape a foot high, strict, erect, clothed with dark 
green acute convolute bracts. Spike a foot and a half 
high, strict, stout. Flowers sessile, distichous, horizontal, 
two to two and a half inches long; bracts dark green 
spotted with brown, tubular, rather gibbous at the base ; 
mouth oblique, margins brown membranous. Sepals 
half as long as the bract or less, dark green, convolute. 
Corolla narrowly campanulate; petals broadly obovate- 
oblong, convolute, emarginate, exserted from one-third to 
one-half their length, pale golden-yellow; scales two, 
basal, ovate, acuminate. Stamens included, filaments 
dilated upwards; anthers linear. Ovary elongate-ovoid ; 
style very slender, stigma minute, three-lobed.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Plant reduced; 2, leaf, and 3, spike of the natural size; 4, petal and 
stamen ; 5 and 6, stamens; 7, pistil:—ad/ enlarged. 
