leaves linear, scariose. Produced leaves usually two to a 

 bulb, tetragonal, eight or nine inches long at the flowering 

 time, finally more than a foot, dark green, with raised 

 angles and slightly excavated sides. Peduncle very short, 

 hidden; spathe-valves lanceolate, pale, membranous, un- 

 equal. Perianth-tube nearly white, two inches and a half 

 long ; limb one and a half or two inches long, very shortly 

 united at the base, pale slaty-lilac ; outer segments oblong- 

 spathulate, half an inch broad, copiously veined with lilac 

 on a pale ground, spreading from about the middle when 

 the flower expands, furnished from above the middle down 

 to the base with a raised yellow crisped carinal crest ; 

 inner segments rather shorter, oblanceolate-unguiculate, 

 erect, a sixth of an inch broad. Anthers lanceolate, dark 

 lilac, longer than the filaments. Style cleft more than half- 

 way down ; appendages acuminate and conspicuously 

 veined with lilac on a whitish ground. — J. G. Baker. 



Fig. 1, Horizontal section of leaf ; 2, flower, complete, life-size ; 3, face of stamen ; 

 4, back view of stamen ; 5, stigma and appendages of the style : — more or less 

 enlarged. 



