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the petals more ihan an inch in length ; the outer ones sharp and 

 thickened at the lip, but the inner blunt, bent in, and having a twin 

 gland, composed of two globes, at the end. The lertilc filaments 

 are Avavcd on the edge, ^ith the antheriu curved inwards beneatli 

 the glands ot" the petals: the barren filaments are triangular, fur- 

 rowed on the outside, a little longer than the others, and have no 

 antheme. The germ is subpedicelled. Tiie style obversely pyrami- 

 dal, the length of the germ, covered with glandulous scales: the 

 angles terminate in subulate horns, covered also with scales; the 

 centre being elongated into a pyramidal stigma. It flowers in April 

 and May. 



In the second the scape is a foot high, upright, roundish, very 

 minutely streaked, smooth, and ash-coloured, with a glaucous bloom 

 on it. The leaves are sharp, smooth, and streaked, a foot long. The 

 bractca? are shcath-form, lanceolate, concave, with a long linear- 

 subulate tip, red, nerved, smooth, straight, and solitary, at the base 

 of the peduncles. The raceme terminating, long, of a crimson co- 

 lour, and smooth : the flowers alternate, peduncled, slightly nod- 

 ding; there being fewer at bottom. The peduncles round, smooth, 

 one-flowered, longer than the bractea?, and spreading. The petals 

 linear, longitudinally nerved, marcescent; the three outer broader, a 

 little concave, red, blunt at the entl, bent in with a small marginal 

 scale; tlie three inner narrower, uprigiit, pale red, with a broad, thin, 

 membranaceous, whitish rim on each side, and an ovale, membra- 

 naceous, inflex scale at the tip. The filaments erect, the length of 

 the coroha, linear, membranaceous, Avhitish, joined aL the base, 

 inserted into the receptacle; they are alternately free, and fastened 

 below by a broader base to the inner petals. Antherie from incum- 

 bent upright; on the loose fdaments barren; on the three others 

 Avhilish with yellow pollen, linear, blunt at each end, emarginate, a 

 little curved inwards, convex at the back, plano-concave in front, 

 twin-furrowed. The germ fleshy, pyramidal-cylindric, blunt, crim- 

 son, smooth, with three calluses at the lip, on a short peduncle, 

 ending in several small blunt teeth pressed close to it. 'i'he style 

 very thick, somewhat flatted, with two of the angles nearer to each 



