bearing a few small lanceolate-deltoid bract-like leaves in the 

 upper part. Flowers twelve to twenty-five, arranged in a 

 dense simple subcorymbose raceme ; pedicels ascending, the 

 lower ones above an inch long ; bracts large, persistent, lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate. Perianth tubular, reddish-yellow, with 

 a green tip, an inch and a quarter or an inch and a half long ; 

 tube very short, campanulate ; segments equal, lanceolate. 

 Stamens and style included. Capsule about an inch long, 

 with three acute firm lanceolate valves. — J. (r. Baker. 



Figs. 1 and 2, portion of a leaf; 3, a single flower with its pedicel and bract ; 4, 

 a flower in a later stage ; 5, inner and outer segments of the perianth ; 6, a flower 

 with the segments of the perianth cut away; 7, a single stamen; 8, style and 

 stigma : — all life-size. 



