raised from seed found in a dried sample collected by 
Messrs. Ruiz and Payon (according to Mr. Lambert) nearly 
thirty years before. Flowers about December in the hot- 
house. 
Stems round, upright, green, sheathed. Blade of the 
leaf ovately oblong, far taper-pointed, slightly twisted at 
the end, covered underneath with a whitish deciduous 
wool (in this climate nearly obsolete, appearing only about 
the midrib and the inner surface of the petiole). Spathe 
of one piece, terminal, leafy, convolutely cowled, upright, 
sessile, much shorter than the raceme. «Raceme nodding, 
many-flowered, sometimes branched; flowers in distant pairs 
(of which one in each pair was generally abortive in the 
present sample), crimson, hanging downwards in one rank ; 
pedicles short, thick; outer bracte close-pressed, the shortest, 
the broadest, common to one pair; partial ones from one 
to two, very slender and fine; common peduncle or rachis 
green, smooth, flexuose, notched alternately where the flowers 
stand. Calyx 3-leafletted, slightly coloured, smooth, se- 
veral times shorter than the corolla, uprightly convergent, 
permanent ; leaflets lanceolate, unequal. Corolla cernuous, 
trumpet-shaped, straight, nearly regular, five inches long — 
or more: lower limb pale, about three inches deep, longer 
than the outer limb: outer limb trifid, equal, a third 
shorter than the inner or more, converging turbinately, 
‘segments growing to the tube in unequal degrees linearly 
lanceolate convolutely concave: inner limb veined in streaks, 
4-cleft, turbinately campanulate, recurvedly spreading, an 
inch and half deep or thereabouts, springing from the 
upper tube, segments connected in unequal degrees, three 
spatulately ovate, rounded at the top, and excepting one, 
which is unequally retuse or slantingly notched, all entire; | 
the fourth (label) slightly different in form, furthest 
parted from the rest, cuneately oblong, deeply bifid. #- 
lament petal-shaped, whitish red, narrowly ligulate, ob- 
tuse, ultimately rolled up backwards from the top to 
the bottom of the anther, which is linear and yellow. 
Style whitish, marked with crimson dots and streaks, — 
lingulate, inequilateral, stiff, at the stigmatose edge pu- 
bescent and more curved, every where else quite smooth. © 
Germen green suffused with red, cuneately oblong, obso- 
letely 3-cornered, covered on the outside with a coat of 
densely crowded blunt straight pricklelike excrescences, 
3-celled; ovules globular, many, in two rows in each cell. 
