ceolate, sub-acute or acuminate, rather undulate, dark 

 green above, bright rose-purple beneath. Peduncle shorter 

 than the leaves, slightly thickened upwards, dull green. 

 Sjpike short, erect, two to two and a half inches broad 

 and long; bracts quinquefariously spreading and recurv^ed, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, bright orange-coloured ; spike- 

 lets about half as long as the bracts, two- to three- 

 flowered ; bracteoles linear-oblouof, as long as the flowers, 

 orange-coloured. Sepals linear-lanceolate, rose-red. Co- 

 rolla orange-yellow, tube short, lobes linear-oblong, 

 acuminate. Staminodes adnate to the corolla-tube. 

 Stamen petaloid. — J, D. H. 



Fig. 1, bracteoles and flowers ; 2, staminodes, antVier, style and stigma 

 3, staminode ; 4 style, anther and stigma : — all enlarged. 



