I have a pot labeled Ixia flexuosa in which I found this plant growing.  Well, it’s clearly not an Ixia, though it is rather flexuous.  I tied the 3 foot scape to a support.  The leaves are cauline, alternate, ensiform, unifacial, plane, with a midrib, held edgewise to the axis; the lowermost are 41 cm.Í1.5 cm.  The 2 inch wide sessile or subsessile red flowers are borne in a bracteate raceme.  The ovary is hidden within the pair of 2 cm. green bracts that subtend each flower.  The 3.5 cm. long narrow floral tube ends in a very shallow (nearly salverform) cup formed by the 4 cm.Í1 cm. tepal limbs.  Each flower lasts nearly a week, opening each morning before 9:00 A.M. and closing in the late afternoon, around 5:00 P.M. (a normal work day).  On any given day, 2 or 3 flowers will be open; the entire flowering lasts about a month.  At 1 cm., the linear basifixed anthers are as long as the filaments.  The style divides at the mouth of the tube, its threadlike branches well exceeding the anthers.  The stigmas are simple, capitate.