. 
Bahia) bears its pretty party-coloured flowers readily and during 
most of the summer months. The plant is cultivated in a pot, 
and plunged into a tank of water in the stove. 
Descr. Roof an oblong rhizome, sending down copious fibres. 
Stems, often several from the same root, a foot to a foot and a 
half high in our strongest specimens, erect, terete, soft and her- 
baceous, sheathed below with the membranaceous and stipu- 
late bases of the radical leaves, and a few long, leafless scales, 
terminating in the panicle of flowers, at the base of which is a 
solitary cauline leaf on a short, sheathing petiole. Radical leaves 
on long petioles, all cordate and acuminate, entire, striated ; the 
sinus at the base deep and narrow. Panicle (or rather com- 
pound spike) of from ten to twelve or more flowers. Perianth 
petaloid, two-lipped ; lower lip of three purple segments ; upper 
and smaller of three blue ones, with a two-lobed white spot in 
the centre, yellowish in the disc. Sfamens three large and three 
smaller ones, the latter lower down in the tube, quite included, 
the former exserted ; fJaments piloso-glandulose, as is the rather 
long style. 
Fig. 1. Flower laid open. 2. One of the superior stamens. 3. Inferior one. 
4. Pistil :—magnified. 
