and concealing the peduncle and base of the raceme. 

 Raceme strict, columnar, golden-yellow from the number 

 and size of the anthers. Brads as long as the flowers, 

 tapering from a broad, pale green, striate base to a very 

 slender, almost filiform tip ; bracteoies half an inch long, 

 triangular-ovate, about as long as the very stout pedicels, 

 membranous, white, streaked with red. Ovary an inch 

 long, narrowly oblong. Ferianth-tube as long as the ovary, 

 infundibular, six-grooved; segments an inch long, linear- 

 oblong, revolute, tip rounded, dorsally green, very pale, 

 almost white within, with a median, darker green band 

 down the middle. Filaments two inches long ; anthers an 

 inch long, very narrowly linear, bright yellow. Style 



shorter than the filaments, tip obscurely three-lobed 



/. D.H. J 



Figs. 1 and 2, flowers of the natural size, with bracta and bracteoies ; 

 6 and 4, anthers j 5, apex of style :— enlarged. 



