Leaves three or four to a bulb, subulate, hollow, furnished 
. with eight conspicuous ridges in long spirals, glaucous 
green, a fifth of an inch in diameter, six or nine inches 
long at the flowering time, finally a foot or more long, 
furnished as in J. reticulata with a horny tip, and the 
whole invested at the base with a membranous sheath. 
Flower single, with only a short peduncle buried during 
flowering but subsequently raising the ripe capsule to 
the surface of the soil; spathe cylindrical; valves un- 
equal, lanceolate, greenish by reason of their conspicuous 
green veins. Perianth-tube about three inches long, ex- 
serted a little from the spathe. Outer segments with a 
long obovate-elliptical claw, separated by a constriction 
from the small reflexed ovate blade. The blade is in the 
upper half and on its edges an intense pure violet in the 
lower part is marked with small violet spots on a creamy- 
white ground, and is furnished with an inconspicuous yellow 
streak not raised into a ridge; the latter is prolonged down 
the claw; this latter is marked by oblique parallel lilac streaks 
on a pale ground. Inner segments rather shorter, erect, 
oblanceolate, plain lilac. Style-branches an inch long; 
crests large, subquadrate, lilac. Anthers violet, equal in 
length to the filaments ; pollen yellow.—M. Foster. 
Fig. 1. Section of the leaf; 2, face of anther; 3, back of anther; 4, branch 
of style :—al/ enlarged. 
