Desor. Perfectly glabrous, stemless, three to four inches 
high. Bulbs one-half to three-quarters of an inch in diameter, 
subglobose, suddenly narrowed into a neck half an inch long, 
clothed with firmly reticulated brown fibres. Leaves bifa- 
rious, three to four inches long by three-quarters of an inch 
broad, narrowly lanceolate, gradually acuminate from beyond 
the middle, rigid, plaited, and with many strong nerves; 
petiole oblique, broad, compressed. lowers solitary, almost 
sessile, the ovary being sunk amongst the uppermost leaves. 
Spathes linear. Perianth-tube an inch and a quarter long, 
very slender ; limb nearly one inch broad, pale violet-blue, 
distinctly two-lipped ; segments elliptic, acute, nearly equal. 
Stigmas not much protruded, deep violet-blue.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reticulate fibres of the bulbs; 2, petiole of leaf, spathe, and perianth-tube; 
3, transverse section of ovary :—all enlarged. 
