Drscr. Root exactly as in C. nobilis, of several stout, fleshy 
fibres. Leaves distichously inserted, numerous, all radical, the 
bases sheathing: the blade one and a half or two feet long, 
gradually tapering towards the extremity into a rather blunt 
point. Scape erect, very much and ensiformly compressed, flat 
on one side, slightly rounded (subsemiterete) on the other. 
Bracts few, small, membranaceous, among the pedicels. Umbel 
of about fourteen flowers. Peduncles two inches or more long, 
erect or erecto-patent, curved upwards. /owers full two inches 
long, independent of the ovary, very much falcate or curved 
downwards, of a dull orange or brick-red colour, gradually pass- 
ing upwards into yellow, and that again into the green of the 
upper extremity: their shape is infundibuliform, curved: the 
sepals (united only at the base) overlap each other for their whole 
length, except at the apices, which are patent, and thus give their 
flower a very different appearance from that of C. nobilis. The 
stamens are inserted above the base of the perianth, longer than 
it: the filaments white, curved: anthers oblong, yellow. Ovary 
subglobose, but three-lobed or angled. Style longer than the 
stamen, much inserted beyond the sepals. Stigma trifid. 
Fig. 1. Pistil and stamens. 2. Pistil :-—imagnified. 
