Stem from quite short to about 2 dm. long. Leaves densely imbricate, 8-30 cm. long, green above, purplish beneath; sheaths distinct, elliptic, densely brown-punctulate; blades linear-triangular, acuminate, 10 mm. wide, suberect or some-what spreading, punctulate-lepidote. Scape slender, short. Inflorescence simple, few-flowered, thick-fusiform, up to 65 mm. long and 40 mm. thick, sterile toward apex. Floral bracts ample, ovate-elliptic, acute or subacuminate, erect, barely shorter than the petals at anthesis, membranaceous, bright red with dark tips. Flowers subsessile. Sepals elliptic, obtuse, 15-20 mm. long, membranaceous, glabrous, connate for 3 mm. Petals bright yellow, 7 cm. long, connate in a slender tube for 6 cm., the free lobes sub-elliptic, obtuse. Stamens included; filaments con-nate with the petals for nearly their whole length. Capsule prismatic, acute, 28 mm. long.
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