in diameter, with bright brown outer tunics. Produced 
leaves four or five near the base of the stem, firm in texture, 
ensiform, green, strongly ribbed and margined, about half 
an inch broad, the largest not more than two or three 
inches long. Peduncle about a foot long, bearing one or 
two much-reduced leaves. Spike nearly a foot long, 
consisting of eight or ten distant ascending flowers ; spathe- 
valves lanceolate, membranous at the flowering-time, the 
outer an inch or more long, the inner rather shorter. 
Perianth bright pale scarlet, two or two and a half inches 
long; tube curved, openly funnel-shaped, half an inch long ; 
segments all oblong and acute, but very unequal in size, 
permanently much imbricated, the upper one an inch and 
a half long by half as broad, not cucullate; the two side 
ones rather shorter and broader, standing forward in the 
fully-expanded flower with slightly spreading tips; the 
three lower ones much smaller, under an inch long. Stamens 
not reaching up more than half the length of the upper 
segment of the perianth; anthers white, a quarter or a 
third of an inch long. Style half as long as the top segment 
of the perianth; stigmas oblong, falcate, with long claws.— 
J. G. Baker. : é 
Fig. 1, upper portion of a stamen ; 2, upper portion of style, with the three 
stigmas :--both enlarged. 
