succession; outer valves subequal, green, lanceolate or 
oblong-lanceolate ; pedicels nearly as long as the outer 
spathe-valves. Expanded perianth four inches in diameter ; . 
segments connivent in a cup at the base, spreading above 
it; outer segments with a bright scarlet unspotted ovate 
blade, and a broad cuneate claw, spotted with red ona 
yellow ground; inner segments with a similarly spotted 
ovate claw and a very small ovate yellow blade, spotted 
with red. Filaments united in a long cylindrical column ; 
anthers linear, basifixed, half an inch long. Style-branches 
as long as the anthers, emarginate at the apex. Capsule 
clavate, obtusely angled, two or three inches long.—J. G. 
Baker. | 
Fig. 1, Top of column of filaments, anthers and style-branches; 2, back view 
of anther :—doth enlarged. 
