Descr. Rhizome tuberous and creeping, covered with cir- 
cular scars of fallen buds, giving off thick fleshy root-fibres. 
Stem none. Leaves all radical, on long slender petioles two 
to three feet long; blade one to two feet long, oblong linear- 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, rather pale green, shortly 
abruptly acuminate, cuneate at the base. Scape short, radi- 
cal, hidden amongst the leaves, erect, straight ; flowering 
portion bright red, about a span long, bearing about four 
distichous spathes. Spathes erecto-patent, subulate from a 
broad base, nearly a span long, scarlet, with green stiff, al- 
most pungent points, thick and hard, not striated. Flowers 
five to six in a spathe, two to three inches long, sessile, 
crowded ; partial spathe membranous. Perianth white, green 
towards the apices of the narrow linear segments; tude short, 
cylindric ; limb two-lipped, upper leaflet concave, bifid, lower 
at length revolute at the apex; upper inner leaflet triden- 
tate, lower very short.— J. D. H. 
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Fig. 1. Entire plant, reduced ; anthers whitish. 2. Inflorescence. 3- 
Flowers. 4. Ovary, ete. :—ail magnified. 
