an inch broad at the top of the dilated base, narrowed 
gradually to the point, falcate in the upper half, minutely 
toothed, the face bright green, the back finely striped and 
thinly white-lepidote, without any bands or spots. Peduncle 
central, about a foot long, its bract-leaves erect and lanceolate, 
the lower ones greenish, the upper bright red. lowers four 
to eight in a cernuous subspicate raceme; pedicels very 
short or none; bracts minute, deltoid. Perianth about two 
inches long; ovary oblong, naked, bright green, with many 
irregular vertical ribs and hollows. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 
about half an inch long. Pefa/s lanceolate, twice as long as 
the sepals, bright green, with a sudden blue edge, with 
a couple of small scales near the base. Stamens reaching 
to the top of the petals; anthers yellow, linear, ver- 
satile. Sfy/e a little longer than the stamens; stigmas con- 
volute—J. G. Baker. : 
Fig. 1, a flower cut through vertically, nat. size ; 2, a scale from the base of a 
petal; 3, an anther; 4, stigmas :—the three last magnified. 
