ensiform, pale green, firm in texture, tapering gradually to 
a point, one and a half or two feet long, an inch and a half 
broad. Flowering-stem three feet long, bearing three or 
four clusters of flowers. Flowers three or four in a cluster, 
bright lilac, fugitive, inodorous; spathe-valves ovate or 
oblong, moderately firm in texture, green at the flowering- 
time, an inch or an inch and a half long; pedicels nearly 
or quite as longas the spathe. Ovary clavate; tube short, 
cylindrical; limb above two inches long; outer segments 
obovate, under an inch broad, with lines of darker lilac 
radiating from the deeply fimbriated yellow crested keel; 
inner segments rather shorter than the outer, more 
ascending, obovate-unguiculate, concolorous. Anthers 
linear, white, basifixed. Styles lilac, above an inch long; 
appendages quadrate, deeply fimbriated.—J. G. Baker. 
_Fig. 1, Whole plant, much reduced ; 2, apex of leaf; 3, clusters of flowers, both 
life-size; 4, stamen ; 5, style with stigma and crests :—both enlarged. 
