sheathing, elongate-linear-subulatc, a foot long, and four to rix 

 lines broad or more, rorforaceooa Of rabtomentose below, pale 

 green above. Flowers in a rather lax, linear, oblong, simple 

 spike, sessile or shortly peduncled, linear, with narrow green 

 bracts. Outer peria/i ///-segments tripartite, nearly smooth, with 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, keekd .segments ; inner three til 

 longer than the outer, linear, obtuse, famished with an oblong 

 scale at the base, of a pale but bright orange-red colour. Sta- 

 mens included ; anthers linear. Ovary conical, three-lobed ; style 

 long, slender; stigma, with three twisted lobes. 



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;. 1. Flower. 2. Inner segment of perianth. 3. Rata :— all magnified. 



