or two inches long; spathe-valves two, large, lanceolate. 
Ovary oblong-trigonous, green, with many superposed 
ovules in each cell. Perianth bright yellow, an inch or an 
inch and a half long; segments oblong-lanceolate, three 
or four times as long as the funnel-shaped tube. Stamens 
erect, inserted in two distinct rows, one at the throat of 
the perianth-tube, and the other above the middle of it. 
Style overtopping the anthers, tricuspidate at the tip. 
Capsule oblong, an inch long, loculicidally three-valved 
down to the base. Seeds flat, oblong,, black.—J. G. 
Baker. 
Fig. 1, A flower, cut open, life-size ; 2, back view of anther; 3 front view 
of anther; 4, apex of style, with stigmas :—al/ enlarged. 
