_ third of an inch broad, gradually narrowed from below the 
middle to a very slender apex, rigid, erect. Scape exceed- 
ingly tall and slender, attaining six feet in its native habitat, 
racemosely branched above and drooping; branches remote, 
capillary, three to six inches long, curved from the weight of 
the pendulous flowers, which are clustered at their extremi- 
ties. Bracts at the base of the branches one and a half inch 
long, very slender, subulate, entire; dractlets at the base of 
the flowers oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat laciniate, 
but less so than is usual in the genus. Flowers pendulous. 
Perianth equal, one and a half inch long, dark blood-purple, 
campanulate. Ovary turbinate. 
Fig. 1. Reduced figure of whole plant. 2. Apex of scape :—naf. size. 
3. Base. 4, Apex of leaf:—nat. size. 5. Ovary and stamens. 6. Ovary 
and style :—both magnified. 
