oblong-cylindrical, a foot or more long; flowers all deflexed ; 
pedicels very short; bracts lanceolate, a quarter to half an 
inch long. Perianth cylindrical, an inch and a quarter or 
an inch and a half long, yellow, more or less tinted with 
red; segments lanceolate-deltoid. Stamens and style both 
considerably exserted.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, stamens and pistil; 2, anthers ; 3, ovary; 4, horizontal section of ovary : 
—all enlarged. 
