the runners; the inner become gradually larger, a foot long, li- 
- gulate, the sides convolute, mucronately acuminate at the apex, 
the margin spinescently serrated, the upper or inner side of the 
leaf is dark-green, the outer paler from a whitish furfuraceous 
substance with which it is more or less invested. Scape arising 
from the centre of the foliage, and scarcely exceeding it in length, 
erect or nearly so, rather slender, bracteated with long, subulate, 
erect, rigid bracts, becoming shorter in the inflorescence. Spike 
lax, of from five to twelve erecto-patent flowers. Seyals ob- 
long, erect, appressed, imbricate, acute, red, with a paler streak. 
Petals twice as long as the calyx, white below, the rest deep 
purple-blue, linear-oblong, obtuse, erect, straight, the sides con- 
volute, with two linear lamin within, almost as long as the 
petals, toothed at the apex; and two small scales at the base, 
long-fringed. Filaments inserted just above the laminze, two on 
each petal. Ovary terete, inferior. Style shorter than the petals. 
Stigma three-lobed. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal, with two stamens, lamin, and scales. 3. Pistil: 
—magnified. 
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