long, about three inches broad at the dilated deltoid clasping 
base, where it is sharply toothed, entire above the base, thin 
in texture for a Bromeliad, an inch or an inch and a half 
broad at the middle, bright green on both sides, faintly 
lineate down the back, deltoid-cuspidate at the tip. Peduncle 
about a foot long, erect, hidden by its lanceolate adpressed 
erect imbricating scariose bract-leaves, of which the upper 
are bright red. Panicle half a foot long, with several distant 
short spreading few-flowered spicate subsecund branches, 
subtended by bright red scariose lanceolate bracts as long as 
themselves ; rachises, as in the other species of Zamprococcus, 
bright red and quite glabrous; flower-bracts minute-round, 
navicular, not cuspidate. Calyx half an inch long, the red- 
dish-violet oblong tube longer than the round-cuspidate 
spirally-twisted segments. Pefals lingulate, obtuse, red, 
half an inch long, with a pair of small cuneate dentate scales 
at the base. Stamens and style shorter than the petals ; 
anthers small, oblong; stigmas slightly spirally twisted.—- 
J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, An entire flower, natural size ; fig. 2, calyx-tube, with a single segment ; 
fig. 3, petal and stamen, viewed from inside the flower ; fig. 4, scale from base of 
petal ; fig. 5, two stamens ; fig. 6, stigmas; fig. 7, horizontal section of ovary ; fig. 
8, an ovule :—all more or less enlarged. 
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