into cultivation by Mr. Elwes. It flowered with him at 

 Cirencester last November, but its proper season is April 

 and May, and it is perfectly hardy. Both in this and 

 unguieularis I have seen the filaments sometimes decidedly 

 cohering in the lower half, as is typical in Morcea. 



Descr.^ Rhizome short-creeping, a quarter or a third of an 

 inch in diameter. Tufts crowded, consisting of many leaves 

 and a single central flower. Leaves linear, erect, "firm in 

 texture, acute, finely striated, not more than a twelfth or an 

 eighth of an inch in breadth, the most developed reaching a 

 length of six or nine inches. Spathe of two lanceolate acuminate 

 pale green valves, sometimes as long as or longer than the tube. 

 Ovary oblong, subsessile within the spathe. Perianth-tube 

 green, cylindrical, three or four inches long ; limb bright 

 lilac-purple, two and a half or three inches long, the seg- 

 ments nearly equal in length and all furnished with long 

 claws, the blade of the three outer ones reflexing from its 

 base, veined in the lower half with bright yellow, and fur- 

 nished with many oblique lines of lilac-purple on a. white 

 ground ; the blade of the three inner ones rather narrower, 

 concolorous, and permanently erect. Blade of the Stigmas 

 an inch and a half long ; crests linear, serrulate on the outer 

 borders. Anthers white, above half an inch long, shorter 

 than the flattened filaments.—,/. G. Baker 



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