Dzscr. The principal eaves of our plant spring directly from 
the root; they are two to three feet long (the longest of them 
nearly three inches wide in the broadest part), and they gradually 
taper to a long point upwards, while below they lengthen into a 
narrow channelled base; glabrous, as is every part of the plant, 
full dark green, slightly waved at the edge, and furrowed above 
in the centre and keeled at the back, quite entire. From the 
centre of the plant the peduncle arises, two feet or more long, 
leafy below, the leaves like those from the root, but smaller, 
passing gradually into dracteas, which latter form an imbricated 
long cone-like spzke, a span to a foot and more long, tapering to a 
point; these bracteas are erect, concave, purple-red, tapering into a 
slender, rather pungent, subulate, green point. The moderately 
large, pale, sulphur-coloured flowers are protruded much beyond 
the bracteas, and are sessile. Calycine leaves \ess than half the 
length of three unequal slightly-twisted petals, each of which has 
a bifid scale within at the base. Stamens about equal in length 
with the petals. Anthers yellow.. Ovary free, pyramidal. Style 
slender, filiform, rather longer than the stamens. Stigmas three, 
spiral, twisted. 
Fig. 1. Flower :—natural size. 2. Pistil:—rmagnified. 3. Petal seen from 
within :—magnified. 
