Our specimen flowered in the open border at Kew in — 
March of the present year. 
Duscr. Very glaucous throughout, except the inner sur- 
face of the perianth-segments. Stem, in our specimens, four 
to six inches high (two to eight in native ones), slender, leaf- 
less below, but there clothed with appressed sheaths. Leaves 
three to four on each stem, one and a half to two and a half 
inches long, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, subacute, concave, 
sessile, straight, sheath very short,nerveless, pale green ; upper 
linear lanceolate. Flower solitary, very variable in size, three- 
quarters to one and a quarter inches long, nodding, exactly 
tulip-shaped. Perianth-segments subequal, oblong, obtuse 
or obtusely apiculate, rusty brown purple within, not tessel- 
lated; the outer dark glaucous blue streaked with the same 
purple outside; the inner with a broad glaucous blue band 
down the back ; nectary a linear-oblong green gland. Sta- 
mens erect, filaments slender, twice as long as the narrow 
linear obtuse yellow anthers. Ovary cylindric, sessile by a 
broad base; style slender, gradually thickened upwards 
to the obscurely three-lobed stigma. Capsule pyriform 
erect.—/. D. H. 
_Fig. 1, Bulb and 2, petal :—Joth natural size; 3, stamen and pistil; 4, 
pistil; 5, transverse section of ovary :—all magnified. 
