here figured, which flowered in his establishment in August — 
of the present year. q 
Drscr. Quite glabrous. Stem very slender, with the 
scape three to four feet high. Leaves short for the size of the — 
plant, six to nine inches long, by three-quarters of an inch © 
broad, acuminate, dark green, stout, erect. Scape simple — 
or divided, very slender, 10 to 15-flowered, terete, quite 
naked between the flowers, from the bracts not sheathing the 
internodes. Spike eight to nine inches long. lowers almost 
bifarious ; bracts one to one and a half inch long, lanceolate, 
acuminate, exceeding the perianth-tube, pale green. Perianth- 
tube a quarter of an inch long, concealed by the bracts; 
limb broadly campanulate, one and a half inch in diameter, 
nearly regular, pale golden-yellow with a large purple 
irregularly elongated blotch which is broader at the apex, on 
the disk of the two lower segments ; outer segments broadly ~ 
obovate, with slightly recurved subacute tips, inner narrower 
and more spathulate. Stigmas linear-spathulate, recurved, 
tips notched, almost 2-lobed.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Entire plant :—reduced ; 2, stamen; 3, stigma :—magnified. 
