twelve to twenty to a flower-stem, linear-lorate, two or 
three feet long, three-quarters of an inch or an inch broad 
at the middle, narrowed gradually to a long point and to a 
quarter of an inch above the dilated base, where it 18 
armed with a few small brown-black horny prickles, bright 
green on the face, persistently white-lepidote on the under 
surface, recurving from about the middle. Pedunele two 
or three feet long below the inflorescence, floccose, fur- 
nished with a few much-reduced leaves. Ltacemes several, 
_very lax, arranged in a deltoid panicles pedicels ascending, 
a quarter or half an inch long; bracts lanceolate, scarcely 
longer than the pedicels. Calyx bright red, above an inch 
long, adhering to the ovary at the cuneate base; sepals 
lanceolate. Petals twice as long as the sepals, the same 
colour, unilateral when expanded, furnished with a distinct 
scale at the base. Stamens as long as the petals; anthers 
linear, basifixed, half an inch long. Style reaching up to 
the summit of the anthers; stigmas convolute.—J. G. Baker. 
A, the whole plant, much reduced ; fig. 1, a petal; 2 : istil ; 
: lant, maze ed 3 fig. 1, ; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, pistil; 
5, horizontal section of ovary :—all more or ve magnified. 
