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the petals more than an inch in length; the ouler ones sharp and 

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

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

 are waved on the edge, with the anthcnu curved inwards beneath 

 the glands of the petals: the barren filaments are triangular, fur- 

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

 anthera. The germ is subpedicelled. The 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 

 bracteae are sheath-form, lanceolate, concave, with a long linear- 

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

 of the peduncles. The raceme terminating, Jong, 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 bracteae, and spreading. The petals 

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

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

 scale; tiie three inner narrower, upright, pale red, with a broad, thin, 

 membranaceous, whitish rim on each side, and an ovate, mernbra- 

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

 tlie corolla, linear, membranaceous, whitish, joined at the base, 

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

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

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

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

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

 t\vin-furro\ved. The germ fleshy, pyramidal-cylindric, blunt, crim- 

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

 ending in several small blunt teeth pressed close to it. The style 

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



