to five inches long, variously shaped; the lower broadly ovate, 
with a hastate, truncate, or angulate cordate base; the upper 
ovato-cordate; all acute; the upper acuminate, the lower with 
sinuato-dentate or almost lobed margins ; the upper entire, all 
rather glaucous beneath. Racemes terminal and axillary, pendu- 
lous, very slender and flaccid, one to three feet long, sometimes ~ 
branched at the base. Bracts half the length of the peduncle, — 
the lower ovato-oblong, the upper lanceolate, all acuminate, 
green, usually brown along the centre. Peduneles one to three 
inches long. Bracteoles large, spathaceous, valvate in vernation, 
concave, ovate, acuminate, generally brown, including all the 
corolla but the limb, which is reflexed over them. Calye very 
small, obscurely twelve-lobed or -toothed. Corolla with a scarlet 
limb and orange mouth. Anther-cells spurred. Capsule rigid, 
nearly orbicular, two-lobed, two-celled, with a large, flattened, 
rigid, ensiform beak, fully an inch long. 
Fig. 1. Flower, with the bracteoles removed. 2. Base of corolla and stamens. . 
3. Disc and pistil :—alZ magnified. 
