Duscr. Rhizome short, creeping, with fleshy root-fibres. 
Produced leaves about four to a tuft, linear, not more than 
a foot long, firm in texture, a quarter or a third of an inch 
broad, narrowed gradually to the point. Stem overtopping 
the leaves, bearing a single terminal cluster of two or three - 
flowers, fistular, subterete in the lower part, angled towards 
the top. Spathe-valves lanceolate, two or three inches long, 
membranous towards the tip. Peduncles nearly always 
shorter than the spathe-valves. Ovary cylindrico-trigonous, 
three-quarters of an inch or more long at the flowering 
time. Perianth-tube infundibuliform, not more than a 
quarter or a third of an inch long; outer segments of the 
limb oblong-unguiculate, reflexine, two or two and a half 
inches long, veined with lilac-purple on a pale groundwork, 
and faintly keeled with yellow towards the base of the 
- limb; inner segments nearly as long as the outer, erect, 
oblanceolate, with a long claw, emarginate, plain lilac- 
purple. Stigmas an inch long, exclusive of the reflexing 
Subquadrate strongly-toothed crests. Anthers as long as 
the filaments. Capsule oblong-trigonous, an inch or an 
inch and a half long, cuneate at the base and apex.—J. G. 
Baker. 
Fig. 1, Flower, with the segments of the perianth taken away,—zatural size ; 
2, stamens; 3, horizontal section of ovary :—both enlarged. 
