the same height, and form a truncate mouth to the tunic; 
roots fibrous. Flowering stem two to four inches high, 
closely invested with many obtuse or subacute imbricating 
pale sheaths. Leaves produced after flowering, twice as — 
long as the flowering stem, narrowly linear, hollow, four- 
angled, with thickened angles, tip suddenly contracted into 
an oblique cusp. Scape very short. Spathes two, linear, 
membranous, one-flowered ; pedicel about as long as the 
cylindric ovary. Perianth about an inch and a half in 
diameter; tube an inch and a half long ; outer segments 
oblong-spathulate, obtuse or acute, orange-yellow, with a 
few brown or greenish spots; upper third reflexed; disk 
with an obscure beard or none; inner segments minute, with 
subulate tips that project between the base of the outer. 
Style as long as the perianth, golden yellow, bifid; lobes 
seml-ovate, acute. Stamens with linear yellow anthers, 
which are larger than the filaments.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Transverse section of leaf; 2, stamen; 3, portion of style showing 
the stigma :—all enlarged. 
