_inch long, subulate-lanceolate, rigid, quite entire, concave 
below, obscurely 3-nerved, obtuse or pungent. Fowers 
crowded, rarely solitary, sometimes forming cylindric spikes, 
rarely solitary, sessile. Bracts imbricate, membranous, 
equalling the calyx-tube. Calyx green, tube one-twelfth of an 
inch long, ovoid, rounded at the base; lobes rather shorter, 
erect, ovate, subacute. Pefals about twice as long as the calyx- 
lobes, elliptic, subacute, concave, erect. Bundles of stamens 
erect, then spreading, half an inch long, bright rose-red ; 
claw linear-spathulate ; filaments fifteen to twenty. Fruit 
3-valved—/J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Front and 2, back view of leaf; 3, flower and bract; 4, flower 
with two calyx-lobes and petals removed, showing the base of two staminal 
bundles, and the style ; 5, staminal bundle :—all magnified, 
