inches long, covered with a brown, smooth tissue, which is 
bristly on the inner surface towards the tip. S¢em six inches 
high, leafy, stout, one-flowered, pubescent. Leaves alternate, 
lower twelve to fifteen inches long by two broad, upper 
smaller, sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, glaucous green, mi- 
nutely pubescent above, margins plane andsmooth. Scape 
slender. Flower three inches in diameter, broadly companu- 
late; perianth-segments obovate, rounded at the top with a 
mucro, deep scarlet, with a broad, wedge-shaped, dark violet- 
blue spot at the base, which is margined with yellow. Séa- 
mens less than half the length of the perianth-segments ; 
anthers violet-brown, as long as the black filaments, Ovary 
trigonous ; stigmas horizontal, with recurved tips, very thick, 
undulated, pale yellow.—J. D. H. 
