and the flowers are, even in their youngest state, more in- 
clined to lilac or rose colour. Of the latter kind a single 
flower is given at fig. 5. Its flowering season in this coun- 
try is August. 
Descr. Bulb small, roundish, about the size of a hazel 
nut. Leaves two, oblong, striated, erecto-patent, in « des- 
titute of spots; in 6 spotted. The scape varies in the 
same way, and is below the spike, a length about equal to 
that of the leaves, covered with a glaucous bloom. Spike 
many-flowered. Bracteas small, subulate. Flowers sessile, 
about an inch long. Outer segments of the perianth 
(which might well be called a calyx) oblongo-ovate, erect, 
with a gland just below the apex, of a yellowish-green 
colour at the base, blue, or rose-coloured in 8, and more or 
less dotted with blue: inner segments twice as long as the 
outer, spathulate, obtuse, erect, spreading only at the ex- 
tremity. Stamens unequal, shorter than the style: both 
are ascending and included. Filaments subulato-filiform, 
white. Anthers very small, yellow. Germen ovato-glo-| 
bose, three-lobed, green. Stigma capitate. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil. 3, 4. Stamens. 5. Flower of @.:—all slightly 
magnified. 
