Duscr. Stems tuftea, branched from the base, very short, 
densely leafy, whole plant perfectly glabrous and shining. 
Leaves a foot long, by one to one and a quarter inches 
broad at the middle, linear-ligulate, acute, apiculate; lower 
half concave, rounded at the back, yellow with crimson 
stripes ; upper half nearly flat, of a bright crimson pass- 
ing into yellow, and then into green at the tip, margin 
quite entire and smooth. Scape erect, densely clothed 
with erect scarlet sheaths a span long, the long acute 
tips of which reach the inflorescence; the sheaths are 
lanceolate-subulate, obtusely keeled, quite entire, and very 
indistinctly nerved. Znflorescence an oblong compressed dense 
panicle of a pale golden colour, except the scarlet tips of the 
lowest bracts, which project from the base, and are ovate 
with long subulate points; bracteoles boat-shaped, obtuse, 
hard and coriaceous, rather exceeding the sepals. Sepals 
linear-oblong, very concave, subacute, coriaceous, imbricate. 
Corolla-tube shortly exceeding the calyx, terete; limb one- 
third of an inch in diameter, of three ovate very obtuse concave 
lobes. Stamens with the filaments wholly adnate to the 
corolla-tube, at the mouth of which the linear-oblong yellow 
anthers appear to be sessile, Ovary trigonous ; stigmatic lobes 
three, linear, erect, twisted.—J. D. if, 
Fig. 1, reduced view of whole plant; 2, dower; 3, portion of corolla and 
_ Stamens; 4, ovary style and stigmas :—figs, 2,3 and 4, magnified. 
