viz. the hyacinthine blue of the corolla, the two converging 
segments of the upper lip which are dissimilar to the rest, 
an upper stamen removed from the others and accumbent 
to the superior lip of the limb, the petioled bladed pro- 
minently nerved foliage, and lastly a germen with disper- 
mous cells and ovula inserted at the bottom of these. In the 
latter character it agrees with PANCRATIUM amboinense and 
some others of that genus. But its general accordance 
is manifestly more complete with AMaARvLLIs than with 
any other generic groupe, and its anomalies, in our judg- 
ment, are not of a nature to render the separation of it into 
a new one expedient. 
Bulb tunicate, ovate. Leaves 9-3, about eight inches 
long and 2-3 broad, appearing long after the bloom has 
gone by, bifarious, recumbent, firm, substantial, petio- 
led; blade ovate oblong, abruptly pointed, flat, latticed 
by veins crossing the vertical nerves, deep green, mid- 
rib prominent beneath. Scape rather higher than the leaves, 
cylindric, unstreaked, reddening near the base. Spathe of 
two valves, sphacelate, much shorter than the flowers. 
Umbel nearly sessile, subcapitate, 9-10-flowered, with in- 
tervening bractes: flowers of a purplish or violet-blue and 
white, nutant, about two inches and half long, without 
scent. Corolla funnel-form, ringent, unequal; tube purplish 
white, several times shorter than the limb, bent forwards, 
cylindrical, depressed at the upper side which has a pro- 
minent nerve; /imb half radiately expanded down to the 
short subventricose naked faur, segments lanceolate, more 
or less undulated, the three outer ones, and the lower 
middle inner one, all of a purplish-white colour, and nar- 
rower than the remaining two; the 3 forming the outer lip 
upright and connivent, the two lateral of these broader, 
firmer, and flatter, of a deep hyacinthine-blue colour, with 
a large oblong white spot from above the middle down to the 
base, mutually converging so as nearly to hide the centre 
segment; the three forming the lower lip stellate, as well 
as the two lateral ones revolute. Stamens a third shorter 
than the limb or more; declined, uppermost one removed 
from the others, and bent back against the upper lip: 
anthers cream-coloured. Stigma simple. 
Requires to be kept in the hothouse, where it flowered in 
the autumn, at Mr. Gritiin’s, South Lambeth. 
a A flower-bud. 
