plaited, the angles of the plaits being winged; bright 
green, about a foot long, or thereabouts. Scape erect, 2-3 
feet high, flexuose, round, glaucous, branched, many- 
flowered. Flowers large, yellowish orange-coloured, scent- 
less, soon withering. Perianth campanulate at base ; the 
outer segments oblong, spatulate, spreading, flat, twisted, 
caudate at the point, with a purple line in the axis, at the 
base half-transparent, pale, and streaked with purple lines ; 
inner much smaller, erect-spreading, with a revoluffe limb, 
which is obtuse at the end, concave and pale in the middle, 
and closely pencilled with purple on each side ; its claw 
flat, half-transparent, streaked with purple. Filamentf 
adhering in a short, fleshy stalk, placed opposite to the 
larger sepals and the stigmas ; anthers 3, erect, hastate, 
shorter tnan stigmas, with purple cells. Ovarium inferior. 
Stigmas 3, bifid, with a two-toothed and elevated centre. 
