erect, clothed with pale brown scariose broadly ovate - 

 acuminate bracts. Raceme dense-flowered, 17-20 cm. long, 

 conical-cylindric. Bracts reflexed, 5-6 mm. long, ovate- 

 cuspidate, scariose, pellucid. Pedicels recurved, 3-4 mm. long. 

 Perianth 3*5 cm. long, cylindric-ventricose ; outer segments 

 free for 15-17 mm., obtuse and recurved at the apex, 3-5- 

 nerved; inner segments obtuse and recurved, 3-nerved. 

 Stamens projecting 11 mm. beyond the perianth and slightly 

 recurved. Style stout, strongly recurved. Fruit 2*5 cm. long, 

 1*3 cm. in diameter, oblong-ovoid. 



Plate 41. — Fig. 1, entire plant, much reduced ; Fig. 2, raceme ; Fig. 3, 

 portion of leaf : Fig. 4, transverse section of leaf ; Fig. 5, bract ; Fig. 6, open 

 flower ; Fig. 7, fruit showing remains of perianth attached. 



F.P.S.A., 1922. 



