short, simple, nearly hidden by its short sheathing leaves. 
Spathes two-flowered ; valves three, oblong-lanceolate, pale 
green, subscariose, very ventricose ; pedicel short. Ovary 
oblong-trigonous, half aninchlong. Perianth-tube slender, 
under an inch long; limb bright lilac, one and a half or 
two inches long; outer segments obovate-cuneate, ~ 
spreading from the middle in the expanded flower; blade 
dark lilac, variegated with paler lilac; claw whitish, with 
violet veins; beard of white hairs, tipped with yellow, 
springing from an obscure crest ; inner segments narrower, 
rather shorter, paler, erect, conspicuously emarginate.. 
Style crests large, deltoid. Anthers linear; filaments short. 
Capsule small, oblong-trigonal, rostrate. Seeds with a 
small but conspicuous arillode.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Front view of anther; 2, back view of anther; 3, apex of style, with 
crests :—all enlarged. 
