and a half inches in diameter. Leaves four to six inches long 
by one to one and a half inches broad, spreading and _ re- 
curved, pale rather glaucous green on both surfaces, mem- 
branous, broadly strap-shaped from a dilated sheathing base, 
tip rounded with a mucro, or acute, faintly striate. Scape six 
inches long, stout, cylindric, scarlet, clothed with small ap- 
pressed erect sheaths, with green tips, the lower of which are 
acute and the upper elongate and acuminate. Spike five 
inches long by four inches broad, broadly ovate, distichous, 
very much compressed, rachis scarlet. Bracts closely imbri- 
cating at the base, nearly horizontal, two inches long, lanceo- 
late with acuminate incurved points, laterally much com- 
pressed, 1-flowered, green beyond the middle, scarlet below 
it. Mowers projecting half an inch beyond the bracts, elon- 
gate, bluntly trigonous; ovary oblong. Perianth pale yellow, 
outer segments linear-oblong, coriaceous, keeled, rounded at 
the tips; inner, twice as long as the outer, cohering nearly 
to the tips, which are dark green. Scales within the 
base of the perianth oblong, obtuse. Filaments filiform ; 
anthers linear, yellow, their tips exserted. S¥yle thickened 
at the base, flexuous; stigmas 3, short. Capsule (in dried 
specimen) trigonous, valves rigid pungent, back deepl 
wrinkled.—J. D. H. — get ae 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, style and sti 
gmas; 3, segment of inner perianth, stamen 
and scales :—all magnified. es zh : 
