Dxscr. Bulb globose, with membranous tunics. Radi- 
cal leaves about half-a-dozen, developed in a distichous rosette, 
erect, ensiform, glabrous, acuminate, a foot or a foot and a 
half long by an inch broad, glaucous-green, with very strong 
raised ribs. Scape stout, terete, two feet high, closely 
bracteated by reduced leaves. Lzpanded spike a foot long, 
of eight to twelve arcuate-ascending flowers. Spathe-valves 
firm, green, lanceolate, acuminate, the outer three to four 
inches long, the inner one rather shorter and narrower. 
Perianth-tube a narrow, yellowish-green funnel, two and a 
half to three inches long. Limb with close, purple-red, 
anastomosing, vertical lines on a yellowish groundwork, the 
three upper segments similar in size and shape, obovate- 
spathulate, decidedly acute, one and a half to two inches 
long by an inch broad, the two outer reflexed at the tip 
when the flower is fully expanded, the inner one permanently, 
falcate ; three lower segments plain yellow or little striped 
with red, an inch long, lanceolate, acute, reflexing. ent- 
tala arching, two-thirds as long as the limb; anthers cylin- 
drical, purplish-yellow, half an inch long; stigmatic lobes 
oblanceolate, spreading.— J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Anther and top of filaments ; 2, stigmas and upper part of style :— 
both magnified, 
