obscurely ciliate on the edges, the largest four to six 
inches long by an inch broad. Pedunele robust, glabrous, 
stiffly erect. Perianth campanulate, bright yellow, an inch 
and a half long ; segments all six uniform in shape, oblong, 
cuspidate, half as long as broad, furnished with a small 
deltoid red-brown blotch at the base, the three outer flushed 
with red over the back. Stamens about half as long as the 
perianth ; anthers bright yellow, nearly half an inch long; 
filaments shorter than the anthers, without any hairs at 
the base. Ovary cylindrical-trigonous, the three stigmas 
about as broad as its diameter.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, One of the segments of the perianth, life size ; 2, stamen, viewed from 
the back ; 3, stamen, viewed from the face; 4, pistil:—a/l more or less enlarged. 
