glabrous, one-flowered. eaves four or five to a stem, all 
springing from its lower half, erect, linear-lorate, acute, 
green, glabrous, not at all crisped, the lowest half a foot 
long by half or five-eighths of an inch broad, the others 
smaller.  Perianth erect, inodorous, broadly campanulate, an 
inch and a quarter deep; both rows of segments alike in 
shape, oblong, acute, half or five-eighths of an inch broad at 
the middle, puberulous at the tip, deep crimson on the face, 
tinged with yellow on the outside, with a rhomboid purple- 
black blotch with a distinct yellow border occupying the 
whole breadth of the claw and reaching a third of the way 
up. Stamens half as long as the perianth, purple-black, thé 
linear filament hairy at the base and rather shorter than the 
ligulate anther. Ovary clavate, shorter than the stamens, 
narrowed to the point, and tipped with three small stigmas.— 
J. G. Baker. 
