half long, an inch and a half broad at the middle, three 

 inches at the dilated base, deltoid-cuspidate at the apex, 

 plain green on the face, without either bands or spots, pale 

 green on the back, tinged, especially towards the base, 

 with claret-brown. Peduncle robust, a foot long ; bract- 

 leaves many, small, ovate, imbricated. Flowers twelve to 

 twenty, arranged in a simple distichous spike, all spreading 

 horizontally from the stout slightly flexuose rachis, which 

 is flattened laterally opposite each flower ; flower-bracts 

 ovate, green, margined with claret-red, an inch long. 

 Calyx green, glabrous, glutinose, a little longer than the 

 bract. Corolla nearly twice as long as the calyx, petals 

 yellowish- white, more or less tinged with coppery-brown.. 

 Stamens shorter than the petals, those opposite the petals 

 appendiculate at the base with a pair of large scales. 

 Style not much longer than the ampullseform ovary. 

 Capsule a little longer than the calyx. — J. G. Baker, 



Fig. 1, Base of petal, showing the insertion of the filament and its scales ; 2, a 

 stafuen ; 3, apex ol style, ail more or less enlarged; 4, bract, calyx and young 

 capsule, life-size. 



