marked ribs and a much thickened straw-coloured border. 

 Stem one and a half or two feet long, concealed by the many 

 reduced adpressed leaves. Flower-spike dense, distichous, cen- 

 tripetal, reaching sometimes a foot in length, the flowers 

 packed so tightly that the spathes of adjoining flowers wrap 

 over each other; spathe-val ves chartaceous in texture, brown, 

 closely striated, the outer one ovate or ovate-lanceolate, about 

 an inch long, the inner one rather shorter, lanceolate-navi- 

 cular. Perianth rose-red, not scented ; ovary sessile ; tube 

 curved, about an inch and a half long, cylindrical in the lower 

 half, funnel-shaped in the upper half, half an inch in diameter 

 at the throat ; segments oblong, acute, half as long as the tube, 

 spreading when the flower is fully expanded. Stamens ex- 

 serted from the tube, falling short of the top of the perianth- 

 segments ; anthers linear, whitish. Style-arms deeply bifid, 

 with reflexed forks. — J. G. Baker. 



thJiLi'- B ?T ° f th °, T the ' natural size > 2 > a flower complete; fig. .3, top of 

 tne style : — both mwjntjied. ° * 



