Descrretion.— Herb. Leaves ligulate, acuminate, 54 
in. long, }-1 in. wide, shining green and slightly channelled 
above, keeled beneath. Scape cylindric, 45 in. long, 
1 in. thick, rose-pink near the base, green upwards ; 
spathejrose-pink, its tube somewhat inflated, 2 in. long, 
its tip acute, nearly } in. long; flower bent to one side, 
its pedicel 3 in. long. Perianth bright-red ; tube funnel- 
shaped, 1 in. long, greenish near the base; segments 
broadly oblong-oblanceolate, somewhat blunt, thickened 
at the tip, very slightly spreading. Stamens reaching the 
middle of the perianth-lobes; anthers oblong, lilac. 
Ovary shortly elliptic ; stigma 3-lobed. 
Figs. 1 and 2, anthers ; 3, stigma :—all enlarged, 
