lanceolate reduced leaves. Flowers twelve to twenty, 
arranged in a moderately dense simple multifarious spike ; 
bracts ovate-navicular, acute, glabrous, above an inch long, 
yellow or red. Calyx on a very short stout. pedicel, pro- 
truded a little beyond the bract, green, glabrous; sepals 
oblong, obtuse. Petals white, lingulate, twice as long as 
the calyx, furnished with a pair of cuneate white fimbriated 
scales at the base. Stamens a little shorter than the petals; 
filaments filiform; anthers small, yellow, linear-oblong, 
versatile. Ovary ampulleform ; style reaching to the top 
of the anthers; stigma of three crisped ovate lobes. Capsule 
twice as long as the calyx.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. lia scale from the base of the petal; 2, a couple of stamens; 3, pistil; 
4, horizontal section of ovary ; 5, stigma :—ad/ more or less magnified. 
