many brown tunics, which, are clothed with brown silky hairs 
on the inside towards the top. Stem half to one foot high, 
terete, glaucous, glabrous, tinged with red, one-headed. 
Leaves two or three placed near together below the middle 
of the stem, erecto-patent or falcate, linear, six or nine inches 
long, under an inch broad, glabrous, glaucous, channelled 
down the face. Perianth funnel-shaped, in wild specimens 
about two inches, in cultivated two and a half or three 
inches long, bright yellow, tinged with red on the outside, 
all the segments oblong and acute, but the outer much 
narrower than the inner three, all flushed with a blotch of 
reddish-brown on the claw, the edges of which are ciliated 
with minute silky hairs. Stamens an inch long; filaments 
linear, incrassated and densely pilose at the base ; anthers 
oblong, shorter than the filaments. Ovary green, clavate, 
shorter than the stamens ; stigmas one-sixth of an inch broad. 
— J. G. Baker . 
Fig. 1, The pistil: — magnified. 
