Descr. Stems many, tufted, erect, four to six feet high. 
Leaves bifarious, a foot long by two to three inches broad 
exclusive of the sheath, quite glabrous, linear-lanceolate, 
finely acuminate, base acute, bright green above, paler 
beneath, midrib pale; petiole very short; sheath three to 
five inches long, striated ; ligule short, obtuse. Panicle or 
contracted raceme (thyrse)-erect, a foot high by five inches 
in diameter, densely silkily tomentose; rachis very stout, 
peduncles and pedicels very short and stout; bracts oblong, 
caducous. lowers two and a half inches long, drooping. 
Calyz-tube cylindric, slightly curved, obliquely truncate and 
obscurely lobed, white; before opening it is oblong, with 
vivid scarlet base and tip. Petals white; dorsal large, 
cucullate, obtuse; lateral linear-oblong, obtuse, concave. 
Lip broadly orbicular-ovate, margin and tips recurved and 
waved, bright orange-coloured with undefined radiating 
scarlet streaks. Staminodes short, lobed. Filament stout, 
white; anther pubescent, cells very narrow; connective 
very thick, tip truncate, obtusely lobed. Ovary globose, 
villous, green.— J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower, with the perianth removed ; 2, anther; 3, ovary and staminodes ; 
4, transverse section of ovary :—all enlarged. 
