clothed with lanceolate short erect bracts. Inflorescence 
three feet long, thyrsoid, compact, of many short few- 
flowered spikes surrounded by red-brown oblong acute 
bracts, the inner of which are shorter than the perianth. 
Flowers scarlet, from the tubular ovary, which is one and 
a half inch long, to the tips of the segments, which are 
erecto-patent, narrowly oblong, obtuse, and two inches 
long. Stamens shorter than the perianth-segments, fila- 
ments gradually narrowed upwards; anthers half an inch 
long, yellow in bud, then purple. Style deeply grooved, 
base conical ; stigmas very minute, radiating —J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, End of leaf; 2, portion of inflorescence :—both of natural size ; 3, reduced 
figure of whole plant; 4, outer, and 5, inner perianth-segments ; 6, top of ovary 
and style; 7, top of style and stigma :—all enlarged. 
