Bulb brown, an inch and half long, or more; leaves about a foot long, attenuated at both ends, the point not quite acute; scape reddish, about eight inches high; spathe one and a quarter long, reddish, greener and acute at the point; peduncles less than an inch long, red; germen green, tinged with red; tube cernuous, scarlet, striped with yellow, ribbed longitudinally within, from the points where the laciniae unite; limb yellow, reflex; style curved downwards from above, yellowish, longer than the filaments and limb; stigma trifid; anthers short, straight, rigid; filaments not adhering as in Vallota; but inserted between the ribs, and decurrent; those of the inner petals nearly as long as the limb, the point of the anther projecting beyond; those of the outer, shorter, and inserted a little higher. Our figure represents the inflorescence at two periods; the first flower never nodded, the others nodded before their expansion; and theirs is probably the true posture of the flower.
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