high, erect, slender, dark green mottled with brown, leafy 
except towards the base. Leaves many, scattered, de- 
creasing upward in size, three to five inches long, by one- 
sixth to one-fourth of an inch broad, spreading and 
recurved, narrowly linear, acuminate, deep green above, 
channelled from the base to the middle, paler, and strongly 
keeled beneath, axils not bulbiferous. Flowers two to four, 
pendulous ; pedicels long, stout, horizontal, three to four 
inches long, of the same colour as the stem, and carrying 
a short, revolute leaf about the middle. Perianth about - 
three inches in diameter; segments three inches long, 
two-thirds to three-fourths of an inch broad about the 
middle, conniving in a short, campanulate tube, then 
spreading and revolute, bright orange-scarlet, with small 
black spots about the middle, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 
stoutly keeled dorsally for half their length, ventrally fur- 
nished below the middle with many flexuous, stout nerves 
bearing fleshy spinules; nectarial fossa linear, margins 
produced into fleshy ridges, which are crenulate in their 
upper part, and hairy in their lower. Jilaments orange- 
yellow, diverging ; anthers orange-yellow. Stigmas small, 
obscurely three-lobed.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, base of perianth-segment, inner surface; 2, anther; 3, ovary; 
4, top of style and stigma :—All enlarged ; 5, reduced view of whole plant. 
