twelve inches high, stout, leafy throughout. Leaves 

 radical, eight inches long by three-quarters broad, linear- 

 ensiform, obtuse, green, strongly ribbed towards the base ; 

 those on the scape shorter but nearly as broad. Spike six 

 to eight-flowered. Flowers inclined; spathaceous bracts 

 narrow-lanceolate, convolute, longer than the perianth tube, 

 which is about one inch long and very slender. Perianth 

 two inches to two and a half in diameter; segments elliptic- 

 obovate, obtuse, patent, pale straw-coloured, with a blood-red 

 midrib, which is very slender in front, but broader at the back, 

 and expands at the base, extending over the claw and tube. 

 Filaments pale; anthers linear -sagittate, red-brown. Stigmas 

 pale, recurved. — 7. D. H. 



Fig. 1 Section of tube of perianth, showing the stamens, style, and 

 gmas ; ng. 2, transverse section of immature fruit :— both magnified. 



stigmas ; 



