Leaves rather large, handsome, decurved, ovate, strongly nerved, 
the margin below waved, and then running down into a thick 
winged petiole. Petioles connate at the base. Spikes solitary, 
terminal, large and thick, five to six inches long, almost four- 
sided before the flowers burst forth, and formed by a number of 
ovato-acuminate, serrated, imbricated, pale yellow-green dracteas. 
From a number of these dracteas’several very rich, deep orange- 
coloured flowers expand at a time, gradually opening from below 
upwards. Calye cylindrical, of five linear-lanceolate sepals, with 
two subulate bracteas at the base. Tube of the corolla almost 
wholly concealed by the bracteas ; dimd ringent, upper lip small, 
lanceolate, bidentate, the sides almost meeting in front and con- 
cealing the stamens ; lower lip ample, deflexed, deeply three-lobed, 
lobes ovate, middle lobe very large, often three-toothed at the 
apex; lateral lobes small. Stamen, with the Jilaments glandular, 
the anthers sagittate, one-celled. Ovary oblong-ovate, on a large 
fleshy disk. Style filiform, as long as the corolla. 
Fig. 1. Inner bracteas, calyx and pistil. 2. Stamen. 3. Ovary :—magnified. 
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