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Descr. — Quite glabrous. Caudex short, stout, annulate. tj 



Leaves tufted, two to tliree feet long, by three to five 



inclies broad, lanceolate, elongate-acuminate, base narrowed 



into a short, stout petiole, dark green and shining above ; 



costa beneath stout; nerves many, parallel. Peduncle 



stout, terete, geniculately decurved about the middle, 



then ascending, nearly half an inch in diameter, uniformly 



red-brown. Spike eight to ten inches long ; rhachis rery 



stout, up-curved. Flowers sub-sessile, crowded. Bracts 



triangular-ovate, acute, concave, coriaceous, about as long 



as the perianth-tube ; bracteoles as long, lanceolate. 



Ferlantli campanulate ; tube turgid, half an inch long, 



red-brown ; lobes six, ovate, revolute, dark red-purple. 



Anthers sub-sessile in the middle of the tube, small, pel- 



tately inserted by a very short, thickened dorsal filament. 



Ovary ovoid, narrowed into a long, columnar, white, exserted 



style ; stigma very broad, peltate, crenulate, radiate!/ 



furrowed. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, sectioa of portion of perianth, witli stamens ; 2, dorsal view oi 

 anthers; 3, pistil: — alt enlarged; 4, reduced view of plant. 



