Professor Miquel, it has no near affinity, but it has with the 
Himalyan J. decora, Wall., of Nepal. — 
I am indebted to Mr. Bull for the specimen here figured, 
which was raised from seeds sent by Dr. Hance from his 
garden in Whampoa, and which flowered in April, 1874. 
Descr. Rootstock creeping, tuberous, annulate. Leaves 
about a foot long, by three-quarters to one and a quarter 
inches broad, ensiform, scarcely glaucous. Scape nearly terete, 
about as long as the leaves. F/owers three to four inches in 
diameter. Spathes three, herbaceous, green, erect, longer than 
the perianth-tube, acute. Pedicel about as long as the ovary. 
Perianth-tube one inch long; outer segments one and a half 
inches broad, obovate, margin erisped and waved, pale lilac 
streaked with violet; claw half as long as the limb, white ; 
crest running up the claw and half the limb, half an inch deep, 
white and lilac, deeply laciniate; inner segments rather 
narrower than the outer, spreading, pale lilac, claw short. 
Stigmas half as long as the perianth-segments recurved, lilac, 
segments coarsely toothed —J/. D. H. 
