Scape a foot, or a foot and a half high in our plant, rounded, 
glabrous, not glaucous. Spatha of two oblong, mem- 
branaceous leaves, whose sides are involute, two-flowered. 
Pedicels short. Germen inferior, trigonal. Flowers large, 
extremely handsome; Petals unequal, obovate, sharply 
acuminated, patent, striated, within of a rich crimson, 
green at the base, and above the green is a dark blotch of 
red-purple ; externally paler. Gland in the bottom of the 
flower, from which the stamens and style rise, much enlarged, 
angular, with a dark edge: aperture triangular. Stamens 
declined, scarcely so long as their petals. Filaments red, 
yellow-green at the base. Anthers oblong, versatile, deep 
purple when young, at length covered all over with green 
pollen. Style rather longer than the stamens: Stigma 
trifid. 
