above with yellowish margins, pale beneath and there loosely 
pubescent ; sheath red-brown, pubescent, closely clasping 
the stem throughout its length. Spike strict, erect, spar- 
ingly shortly branched, pubescent; lower flowerless bracts 
distant, spreading, or erect, one-half to three-fourths of an 
inch long, oblong-lanceolate, convolute, red-brown ; upper 
or flowering bracts crowded, ovate, acute, spreading and 
recurved, bright-red, as are the rachis and_ branches. 
flowers one and a half inch long, glabrous. Ovary oblong 
and calyx red, the latter tubular cleft two-thirds down into 
three narrow acuminate segments. Corolla pale yellow; 
tube very slender, three times as long as the calyx, limb 
short; outer segments ovate, acute, not one-fourth the 
length of the tube; inner smaller. Lip oblong, base two- 
lobed, lobes short rounded. Filaments as long as the 
corolla-tube ; anther-wings divided two-thirds way down 
into triangular acute lobes.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, anther; 3, ovary, hypogynous glands, and base of style; 
4, stigma; 5, transverse section of ovary :—all enlarged. 
