Our drawing was made from a plant that flowered 
at Kew. The delicate, metallic or silky sheen on the 
flowers is difficult of reproduction. 
Descr.—A robust herb. Bulb globose. Leaves strap- 
shaped or lanceolate, acuminate or acute, the largest 
eighteen inches long and an inch and three quarters broad, 
glabrous above, marked with longitudinal lines of white 
hairs beneath. Scape one foot high, about five lines in 
diameter, terete, glabrous, about eighty-flowered ; spathes 
three, wide, acuminate, membranous; pedicels two inches 
long, terete, glabrous. Perianth-segments linear, acumi- 
nate, deep lilac with a metallic sheen, ten lines long, one 
line wide, rigid after flowering. Stamens all alike, about 
half as long as the perianth-segments ; filaments subulate, 
dilated at the base; anthers oblong; pollen greyish-green. 
Ovary three-lobed, minutely verrucose, green; style 
subulate, three lines long.—C. H. Wright. — 
' Fig. 1, flower; 2 and 8, anthers; 4, ovary :—all enlarged. 
