apex, obovate-spathulate, the largest six or seven inches long by 
two and a half inches broad five-sixths of the way up, the apex 
subdeltoid, bluntly pointed, the blade a line and a half to two 
lines thick in the middle, the base acutely keeled beneath and 
distinctly channelled above, both sides a pale glaucous-green, 
tinged with pink when old. lowering branch a foot to two feet 
long, the leaves few and much reduced. Flowers thirty to sixty 
in a lax panicle with racemose branches, the lowest horizontal, 
sometimes afoot long. Bracts oblanceolate-spathulate, an inch 
to two inches long. Lower pedicels a quarter to three-eighths of 
an inch long, the upper ones shorter. Sepals thick, linear, very 
unequal, spreading, usually shorter than the decidedly pen- 
tagonal corolla, which is five-eighths of an inch long, bright red 
on the outside, yellow within and at the base.—J. G. B. 
