stem, which is developed later than the scape, five or six in 

 number, oblong, acute, bright green, thin in texture, half a 

 foot or more long, the curved main veins connected by very- 

 fine and close oblique cross bars. Scape about a foot long, 

 solid, terete, spotted with bright claret blotches on a pale 

 ground. Umbel of from thirty to forty flowers, centripetal, 

 four or five inches in diameter when expanded ; bracts linear, 

 red, membranous, rcflexing, an inch and a half long ; pedicels 

 bright claret-red, half or three quarters of an inch long. 

 Flowers bright scarlet, fading to crimson, an inch and a half 

 long ; ovary very small, green, round- oblong ; perianth- tube 

 cylindrical; segments spreading or reflexing, linear-lanceo- 

 late, a little longer than the tube. Filaments the same 

 colour as the perianth-segments, finally a little exserted; 

 anthers very small, oblong, versatile, yellow. Style entire, 

 scarcely longer than the stamens. — J. G. Baker. 



