purchased from Mr. Georg Egger of Jaffa, and flowered 
in the Alpine House at Kew in May, 1904. 
Descr.—A perennial herb about eighteen inches high. 
fthizome short. Leaves ensiform, glaucous, the largest 
nine inches long and one inch wide. Scape one-flowered ; 
spathes lanceolate, green, three inches long. Perianth- 
segments : outer broadly ovate, acute, two inches and a 
half long, nearly two inches wide, yellowish, densely 
spotted with purple-brown and marked in the centre with 
a similarly-coloured spot (signal) seven lines in diameter ; 
inner orbicular, clawed, two inches and a half in diameter, 
pale blue, with numerous lilac veins which bear spots — 
towards the margin of the blade. Stigmas oblong; crests 
triangular, eight lines long, similar in colour to the outer 
perianth-segments.—C, H. Wright. 
Figs. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, portion of style-arm :—all enlarged. 
