nelled down the face, four to six inches long at the time of 
flowering. Scape terete, rather shorter than the leaves. 
Raceme dense, conical, with a thickened rugose axis 
coloured blue like the flowers; lower flowers deep blue, 
deflexed, with a short pedicel and an oblong perianth one- 
sixth of an inch long, with ovate segments about one-third 
as long as the tube; flowers of the upper half of the 
raceme nearly sessile, with a sky-blue campanulate 
perianth with segments nearly or quite as long as the 
tube; uppermost flowers minute and _ rudimentary. 
Stamens in the lower flowers inserted in a single row 
about the middle of the perianth-tube ; filaments as long 
as the anthers. Pistil half as long as the perianth-tube ; 
ovary ovoid; style short, cylindrical; stigma capitate.— 
J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, One of the lower flowers of the raceme ; 2, one of the upper flowers; 3, 
vertical seciion of one of the lower flowers; 4, an anther, seen from the front; 5, 
back view of an anther; 6, horizontal section of the ovary :—all more or less 
enlarged. 
