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Gardens ; it flowered in the Royal Gardens in July of last year, _ 
and of the previous one, the flowers opening after mid-day. 
Descr. Root of tufted fleshy fibres, clothed, as is the neck 
of the plant, with coarse matted red-brown filaments. Leaves 
appearing with the flowers, two to three inches long, by 
one and a quarter to one and a half inches broad, spreading 
from the neck, ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, quite 
glabrous, rather fleshy, smooth, nerveless, pale beneath ; 
young convolute, with red margins. Scapes two (in our. | 
specimen), a foot high, slender, cylindric, glabrous, green. 
faceme six to ten inches long, 20-30-flowered ; pedicels 
spreading almost horizontally, one inch long, with a minute 
ovate acute bract one-eighth inch long at the base. Lower 
jointed on the pedicel, half an inch in diameter, bright golden- 
yellow. Perianth-segments \inear-oblong, obtuse, spreading : 
almost from the base, 1-nerved, with green tips and keel at the 
_ back. Stamens inserted at the base of the perianth-segments, 
rather shorter than these, filaments slender, not flattened, 
equal; anthers small. Ovary, sessile, broadly elliptic, truncate, 
3-lobed; style straight, subulate, stigma minute ; ovules 
about six in each cell. ‘Seeds woolly,” (Baker).—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, ovary; 3, transverse section of ditto:—all magnified. 
