in the Cambridge Botanic Garden. It flowers at the 
beginning of June. - 
Drscr. Rhizome thick and fleshy, resembling that of 
I. florentina. Leaves ensiform, pale green, a foot and a 
half long, one and a half or two inches broad, strongly 
ribbed, narrowed gradually to a scariose tip. Pedunele 
slightly overtopping the leaves, usually once forked. - 
Flowers two or three in a cluster, creamy white, strongly 
scented ; pedicels very short; outer spathe-valves oblong- 
navicular, four or four and a half inches long. Ovary 
oblong-trigonous, above an inch long; perianth-tube infun- 
_ dibuliform, greenish, an inch long; outer segments obovate, 
unguiculate, three and a half or four inches long, an inch 
and a half broad, reflexing from below the middle, the 
veins of the face greenish-yellow, of the claw violet-purple ; 
beard extending considerably beyond the claw, the hairs of 
the upper part pure white, of the lower tipped with orange- 
yellow ; inner segments erect, obovate-unguiculate, scarcely 
smaller than the outer, veined with purple and bearded 
down the face of the claw. Crests of the stigma large, 
deltoid, irregularly toothed on the outer margin. Anthers 
large, pure white.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Anther ; 2, stigma, with its crests :—both enlarged. 
