diameter at one-third distance above the base, dilating at 
the base into a broad membranous sheath, and gradually 
narrowed to the tip; triquetrous, not deeply or sharply 
keeled, bright green, not at all glaucous, margins quite 
entire. Scape three to four feet high, naked, or with an 
occasional linear scarious or membranous bracteal leaf 
sometimes four to five inches long, dull green, minutely 
speckled with red, giving it a brown look. Spike three to 
four inches long, by one and a half to two inches in 
diameter, quite cylindric and obtuse ; flowers quite sessile, 
pendulous; bracts a quarter of an inch long, ovate, acute, 
with long points, membranous, deflexed. Perianth three- 
quarters of an inch long, narrowly bell-shaped, slightly 
contracted above the base, dull pale vermilion red and 
yellow; mouth shortly broadly four-lobed, lobes obtuse 
erect. Stamens shortly exserted, for not more than twice 
the length of the perianth-lobes; anthers shortly oblong. 
Style rather longer than the stamens, stigma minute.— 
JDO: 
Fig. 1, Section of leaf; 2, flower; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, pistil; 6, transverse 
section of ovary :—all enlarged. 
