living specimens sent from Mr. Barr in 1878, and Sir 
Chas. Strickland in 1879: Our drawing was made from a 
plant that flowered at Kew in the summer of last year, 
received from Mr. Harman. Ms 
Descr. Bulb globose, about an inch in diameter, with 
numerous brown membranous tunics. Leaves six or eight 
in a distichous basal rosette, sheathing tightly the lower 
part of the stem for several inches, produced above the 
sheath into an erect linear plicate glabrous lamina of firm 
texture. Stem pilose, a foot or afoot and a half long, with 
a short arcuate branch bearing a dense secund spike of 
flowers below its middle, and another or sometimes two 
near the top, represented only by small bracts. Spathe 
about an inch and a half long, clasping tightly the perianth- 
tube, composed of two lanceolate valves of firm texture, 
the outer one both broader and longer than the inner. 
Perianth with a green funnel-shaped tube as long as or a 
little longer than the spathe; limb bright crimson, bilabiate, 
the upper lip oblong, acute, with a long claw with incurved 
edges, the lower lip shorter, with five segments, the three 
central ones standing forward, the two side ones small, 
lanceolate, reflexed. Stamens and style wrapped round 
by the incurved edges of the claw of the upper lip of the 
perianth, protruded beyond its tip ; anthers linear, purplish; 
stigma with three falcate linear branches. Capsule oblong, 
coriaceous, with five or six turgid seeds in each cell,— 
J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Front view of anther; 2, back view of anther ; 3, stigmas ; 4, vertical 
section of ovary; 5, two ovules :—adl more or less enlarged, 
