green, six or twelve inches long, inserted on the stem a 
short space above its base, much overtopping the flowers. 
Flowers, three to sixin alax corymb; pedicels long, flexuose, 
erect when the flower expands, nodding in the bud stage 
and in fruit, subtended each by a large linear bract similar 
to the leaf in texture. Perianth nine or ten lines long, 
bright yellow ; outer segments lemon-yellow, oblong, acute, 
glabrous, furnished sometimes with a claret-brown spot at 
the base ; inner segments obovate or suborbicular, cuneate 
at the base, orange-yellow, clothed all over the face with 
concolorous glandular hairs, and each furnished at the base 
with a conspicuous gibbous claret-brown foveole. Stamens - 
as long as the ovary; anthers lemon-yellow, linear, cuspi- 
date, equalling in length the flattened filaments. Ovary 
oblong, about a third as long as the perianth, furnished at 
the apex with three small falcate sessile stigmas. Capsule 
oblong, half or three-quarters of an inch long, with three 
deep acute lobes.—J. G. Baker. : 
Fig. 1, section of an entire flower; 2, 3, glandular hairs from the face of the 
petals ; 4, a single stamen ; 5, horizontal section of the ovary; 6, pistil, taken from 
a bud :—all more or less enlarged. 
