furnished with copious ascending scariose ovate acuminate 
empty bracts. Haceme dense, simple, finally half a foot or 
a foot long; pedicels ascending, often longer than the 
flowers ; bracts of the inflorescence just like those of the 
peduncle. Perianth cylindrical, bright red tipped with 
green, an inch and a quarter long; segments lanceolate, 
united only in a short cup at the base. Stamens and style 
finally a little exserted from the perianth ; anthers minute, 
oblong, orange-yellow.—J. G. Baker. 
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Fig. 1, The whole plant, much reduced 3 2, a flower, slightly enlarged ; 3, an 
anther, viewed from the face ; 4, an anther, viewed from the back; 5, pistil :—ad/ 
enlarged. 
