rounded petiole, slightly keeled at the back, and with a depressed 
line in front. The stem or scape is terete, subglaucous, hollow, 
three to four inches high, supports a solitary flower, and bears 
at its summit two long, whitish, linear, membranaceous bracteas. 
Peduncle (in our plant ; wanting in the figure given by Lindley, 
where the ovary is sessile) two or more inches long, one-flowered. 
Perianth \arge, infundibuliform, tubular at the base, the limb 
very broad, of six oblong, spreading, recurved, mucronate seg- 
ments, bright orange-red within, externally yellowish, with six 
red streaks. Sfamens six, inserted at the throat, three longer 
than the rest, all connivent. Ovary oblong, dark-green. Style 
as long as the tube. Stigma three-cleft, the segments linear. 
Fig. 1. Flower, laid open. 2. Pistil :—magnified. 
