flowering-stem slender, a foot long, with 3–4 superposed leaves with glabrous sheaths, the lower with a slender subterete blade overtopping the stem; flowers 3 in a lax secund spike; spathe-valves green, oblong-lanceolate, 1/2 in. long; perianth bright red; tube curved, funnel-shaped, 1/2 in. long; three upper segments 1/2– 5/8 in. long, obovate or oblong-spathulate, 1/3– 1/2 in. broad; three lower longer, oblong, 1/6 in. broad, distinctly unguiculate, without any distinct blotch on the throat; stamens reaching halfway up the limb. null
