down, one and a half or two feet long in the wild specimens, 
but growing to twice that length in cultivation, finely 
veined, smooth or obscurely scabrous on the narrowly 
cartilaginous margins.. Scape stout, terete, as long as or 
longer than the leaves. Flowers all drooping, aggregated 
in a dense oblong raceme; pedicels very short; bracts 
lanceolate, membranous, under half an inch long. Perianth — 
bright yellow, infundibuliform, half an inch long, the tube 
constricted above the base; segments deltoid. Stamens 
and style bright red, about twice as long as the perianth ;: 
anthers minute, oblong, yellow. Fruit-raceme cylindrical, 
half a foot long, with its pedicels ascending. Capsule glo- 
bose, about the size of a pea, dehiscing loculicidally, with 
numerous small black triquetrous seeds in each cell.— 
J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, A flower complete; 2, anthers; 3, pistil; 4, horizontal section of ovary :— 
all more or less enlarged. Fig. 5, portion of fruiting-raceme :—life size. 
