FLOWERS of a bright orange colour, becoming upright, 
when perfeétly detached from the fpatha, which each 
flower is a confiderable time in accomplifhing. In 
the plant at Chelfea, the two back petals, or, more 
properly fegments of the firft flower, fprang forth 
with the neftary, and while the former became im- 
mediately vertical, the latter formed nearly the fame 
angle as the fpatha; four days afterwards the remain- 
ing fegment of the firft flower, with the two fegments 
and neétary of the fecond came forth, and in the 
fame manner at fimilar intervals all the flowers, which 
were fix in number, continued to make their ap- 
pearance. 
COROLLA deeply divided into three fegments, which are 
ovato-lanceolate, flightly keeled, and fomewhat con- 
cave, at the bafe white, flefhy, and covered with a 
glutinous fubftance flowing in great quantities from 
the neétary. 
NECTARY of a fine azure blue and moft fingular form, 
compofed of two petals, the upper petal very fhort 
and broad, with a whitifh mucro or point, the fides 
of which lap over the bafe of the other petal; infe- 
rior petal about two inches and a half in length, the 
lower half fomewhat triangular, grooved on the two 
lowermoft fides, and keeled at bottom, the keel 
running ftraight to its extremity, the upper half 
gradually dilating towards the bafe, runs out into 
two lobes more or lefs obtufe, which give it an 
arrow-fhaped form, bifid at the apex, hollow, and 
containing the anther, the edges of the duplicature 
crifped and forming a kind of frill from the top to 
the bottom. 
, 
STAMINA five Filaments arifing from the bafe of the ne€ta- 
ry, fhort and diftin&; Anthere long and linear, 
attached to and cohering by their tips to the ape* 
_ of the neétary. 
STYLE filiform, white, length of the neflary. 
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