nate. lowers panicled; lower spathes four to six inches 
long; floral two inches. Flowers variable in size, the fully- 
sized fully four inches in diameter. Outer perianth-leaves 
broadly oblong, obtuse, acute or apiculate; blade blue, some- 
times blotched ; claw yellowish, with transverse brown bands; 
imner segments about half as long as the outer, and much 
narrower proportionally ; claw dirty-yellowish, with orange 
radiating bands; limb with radiating blue bands. Stigma- 
lobes bifid, each with a horn-like appendage at the base 
below.— J.D. H. 3 
Fig. 1. Stamens, style, and stigmas. 2. Transverse section of ovary :— 
both magnified. 
