with sometimes a second added just below it; spathes 
two, green, lanceolate, acute or sub-obtuse, two inches 
long. Perianth-tube two inches long, cylindrical below, 
narrowly funnel-shaped above; outer segments with a pale 
purple ligulate claw about an inch and a quarter long, 
reflexed at the apex, blade oval or almost orbicular, 
shghtly emarginate, with a central, crenate crest, purple at 
the base, orange above, surrounded by an orange-coloured 
area, the remainder dark violet, except for a narrow, white 
marginal line; inner segments patent, violet, about eight 
lines long, three-lobed, terminal lobe much longer, subu- 
late. Style-branches about an inch and _ three-quarters 
long, bifid about six lines down, violet, with an orange- 
coloured spot and crenate scale at the base of the bifur- 
cation, with a few obtuse, irregular teeth near the apex. 
Capsule similar to that of I. bucharica.—C. H. Wright. 
Fig. 1, stamen, front view; 2, the same, back view; 3, base of bifurcation of 
style-branches -—a// enlaryed. 
