gradually upwards. into a very slender almost filiform point, 
deeply channelled above, semiterete beneath, glaucous but much 
tinged with purple. Flowering stem or branch elongated, one and 
a half to two feet high, its lower leaves the same as the rosulate 
ones, the rest are placed far apart (yet numerous), of the same 
shape, but smaller than the rest, with a gibbosity or blunt spur 
at the base beneath (not dilated like the rosulate ones), gradually 
passing upwards into small, very glaucous, oblong-obtuse drac- 
teas. Raceme aspan or more long. Pedice/s half an inch or 
more long, with a few minute subulate dracteoles. Calyz of five, 
equal, linear-lanceolate, patenti-deflexed, glaucous sepa/s, much 
resembling the bracteas. Corol/a nearly an inch long, rather 
bright brick-red, orange within. Sepals five, erect, close-placed, 
united at the base into a short dilated five-angled tube, the seg- 
ments linear-lanceolate, the apices moderately spreading. Sta- 
mens quite included, five inserted at the base of the corolla, five 
smaller ones a little higher up. Anther oblong. Ovaries five, 
narrow, oblong, subcoadunate : at the base of each is a conspi- 
cuous, suborbicular g/and, with a depression on the upper side. 
Styles slightly twisted. Stigma globose. 
Fig. 1. Petal and three stamens. 2. Pistils and hypogynous glands :—magnijied. 
