nated, the margin sometimes a little waved, especially near the 
base, everywhere unarmed. The sfem runs up into a bracteated 
flower-disk : dracteas sheathing, long, acuminated, red and fur- 
furaceous below, green and glabrous towards the apex. Spike 
oblong, strobiliform. Its dracteas large, scarlet, imbricated, ovate, 
acute, each sheathing the base of a flower. Calyx almost en- 
tirely inferior, conical, elongated, of three imbricating coloured 
lanceolate convolute pieces or sepals, an inch or more long, but 
quite concealed by the bractea of the spike. Corolla very long, 
of three white almost lmear pefa/s, with no scale at the base 
within. Stamens as long as the petals. Style longer than the 
stamens. Stigma spirally twisted. 
Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Transverse section of the ovary :—magnified. 
