open in succession. Spathe-valves acutely keeled, firm m 

 texture, three or four inches long; pedicels finally as long 

 as the spathe-valves. Flowers fugitive, bright yellow ] 

 segments of both the inner and outer rows turmshed with 

 horizontal bars of red brown near the base ; outer segments 

 oblong, flat, an inch and a half long ; inner segments about 

 half as long, panduriform, with an abruptly reflexed tip. 

 Stamens erect; anthers about as long as the filaments, 

 adhering to the stigmas. Stigmas bright yellow, petaloid, 

 cuneate, with three erect linear cusps.—./. G. Baker. 



Fig 1 An outer segment of the perianth ; 2, an inner segment of the perianth, 

 seen from the back ; 3, the same, seen laterally, all three life-size ; 4, the stamens , 

 style, and stigmas : enlarged. 



