inch, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, acuminate, the midrib and 
margins thickened and straw-coloured. Stem under a foot 
long, slender, sheathed by one or two reduced leaves. 
Spike simple, half a foot long, ten to fifteen flowered, lax 
in the lower half; spathe-valves half to one inch long, acute, 
green with a membranous colourless edge and tip, the outer 
one oblong-lanceolate, the inner one lanceolate. Perianth 
primrose-yellow, fifteen to eighteen lines long ; tube curved, 
cylindrical, three-eighths of an inch long ; segments all oblong- 
unguiculate, obtuse, twice as long as the tube, the three 
upper ones arching, about half an inch broad, the three lower 
ones decurved, a quarter to one-third inch broad. Stamens 
distinctly shorter than the perianth-segments ; anthers one- 
third inch long, ligulate, cuspidate. Style deeply three- 
forked, the stigmas just overtopping the anthers. — J. G. 
Baker . 
Fig. 1. Anther, with part of filament ; 2, upper part of style, showing the 
three stigmatose forks both magnified. 
