plate is taken from a drawing* made by Mr. Saunders, in whose 

 garden the plant flowered in autumn. 



Descr. Scape two to three feet high, stout, erect, leafy. Leaves 

 as long, half to three-quarters of an inch broad, gradually 

 narrowed to the very acuminate point, strongly nerved, the 

 nerves pale and shining when dry. Flowers, six to twelve, 

 rather remote ; bracts narrow lanceolate, as long as the 

 perianth tube. Perianth decurved, three to three and a half 

 inches in diameter; segments obovate- oblong, cuspidate; 

 upper most arched prominent and deflexed ; upper lateral, 

 wing-like, spreading and recurved, scarlet, paler and spotted 

 on one side ; three lower segments smaller, recurved, crimson 

 above the middle, white spotted with red towards the edges 

 below the middle. Anthers yellow. Stigmas slender, recurved, 

 pale red. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, upper; 2, lower lateral; and 3, lower lateral segment; 4, 

 stamen ; 5, stigmas — all magnified. 



