Wats. (in Garden and Forest, viii. (1895) 5, fig. 1), the 
leaves are two feet long and fifteen inches wide, and the 
inflorescence forms a sheaf of bright red-purple flowers 
nearly two feet high. 
The specimen of S. Wendlandii here figured, flowered 
in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in April, 1895, and ripened 
its fruit about six weeks afterwards. The species continued 
flowering from June till November. 
Descr.—Stemless, with a rosette of very small leaves at 
the base of the solitary developed one, hirsutely pubescent 
above. Leaf horizontal, attaining thirty inches long by 
twenty-four wide, broadly ovate-oblong, rounded at both 
ends, margins crenate and undulate; upper surface pale 
green, tumid between close-placed parallel deeply sunk 
nerves, which are joined by close-set arched nervules; 
beneath dark red purple, with strongly prominent nerves 
and nervules, and subhispid with white hairs. Scapes 
several, stout, forked at the tip, each fork bearing a many- 
fid. subpaniculate raceme of large solitary or geminate long- 
pedicelled yiolet-blue and white nodding flowers; bracts . 
subverticillate at the fork, short, ovate, herbaceous. Calye 
small; sepals linear. Corolla-tube nearly an inch long; 
trumpet-shaped, glandular-pubescent; limb one and a half 
inch broad, oblique ; dorsal lobes recurved, nearly orbicular, 
violet, lateral rather larger and oblong, front lobe white, 
with broad violet margin and three violet streaks ; throat 
with a large dark violet mark below each of the dorsal 
lobes. Filaments glandular on and below the tumid con- 
nective ; staminodes three minute tubercles. Ovary pubes- 
cent; style very short, curved; stigma disciform, peltate. 
Capsule three inches long, slender, cylindric, strongly 
twisted.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of tube of corolla with stamen and staminodes; 2, ovary; 
—both enlarged ; 3, capsule of the natural size. 
