inches long and up to an inch broad, almost coriaceous, 
nerves very prominent when dried. Inflorescence up to 
three feet high; spike three- to five-flowered, lax, secund ; 
spathe-valves lanceolate, the outer up to an inch and a half 
long. Perianth uniformly primrose-yellow; tube an inch 
long, much curved above; three upper segments ovate or 
obovate, cucullate, acuminate, two inches long, an inch 
and a quarter wide, the central one entirely covering the 
genitalia; three lower much smaller, deflexed. Stamens 
about half as long as the perianth-lobes. Style much 
longer than the stamens.—C. H. Wricur. 
Figs. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, stigmas :—all enlarged. 
