and sharply acuminated, costate, obliquely striated, uniform 
green, but subglaucous beneath. Spike erect, more than a span 
long, erect, composed of a great number of obovato-ligulate, sub- 
cucullate, deep orange-red dracteas, spreading at the apex, less 
bright and much tinged with green at the base. The hollow of 
each bractea contains two or three flowers, which are bright, but 
not very deep, yellow, scarcely protruded. Their structure as in 
the genus. Azther, indeed, very broad and villous at the back, 
ciliated at the edge, terminated by a large transversely oval or 
broad cordate crest. Style accompanied at the base by two linear 
scales. Stigma transverse, subinfundibuliform. 
Fig. 1. Flower from which the three outer segments of the corolla are re- 
moved, 2. Anther embracing the apex of the style and stigma. 
