about three-quarters of an inch broad, plicate, costate 
for about half their length, bright green. Spike lax- 
flowered, decurved when flowering in the upper half, four 
to five inches long, rhachis stout, dark green, lower flowers 
an inch or more apart. Outer spathes of lower flowers 
up to two inches long, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 
scarious, pale green clouded with red, of upper flowers 
shorter, oblong, acute, inflated; inner spathe lanceolate, 
about half as long as the perianth-tube. Perianth about 
one-third longer than the outer spathe, narrow, decurved, 
scarlet when exposed, yellow towards its base, tube short, 
cylindric, suddenly dilated into a gibbous, very unequally 
six-cleft tubular limb; dorsal lobe nearly as long as the _ 
rest of the perianth, ovate-oblong, concave, sub-acute; 
lateral lobes two on each side, erect, oblong-lanceolate, 
longest of each pair (those next the dorsal) about one- 
fourth the length of the dorsal, anticous lobe much the 
smallest. Stamens and style as long as the perianth ; 
anthers linear-oblong, yellow. Style very slender, trifid at 
the apex, arms spreading, stigmas capitate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, flower with inner spathe ; 2, anther; 3, ovary, style, and stigmas :— 
All enlarged, cs feo: 
