length and robustness of the scapes; the size of the flower, 
from one-half to one and a half inch in diameter; and, 
above all, in the length of the spur, from one-sixth to one 
inch long. 
I am indebted to Mr. Sanders, of St. Albans, for sending 
to the Royal Gardens a fine healthy plant of this remarkable 
species, which arrived in the state figured in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle,” but in the following year assumed that here 
figured. 
Descr. More or less glandular-pubescent in the leaves 
above scapes and calyx. Leaves in the young plant small, 
ovate, acute, densely imbricate in an orbicular rosette; in 
the older plant few, spreading and recurved, one to four 
inches long by one and a half to three inches broad, obovate, 
obtuse, with a thick obscure midrib, dull pale green with 
dirty purplish margins. Scapes five to seven inches long. 
Flower deep bright violet-purple. Calyzx-lobes oblong or 
obovate-oblong, obtuse. Corolla one to two inches in 
diameter ; tube very short indeed; limb spreading, deeply 
lobed; four lateral lobes obovate, with rounded tips ; lower 
lobe cuneate-obovate, tip broad, retuse. Stamens very 
short, included in the tube, filaments glandular. Ovary 
depressed-globose, glandular; stigma sessile, very broad, 
transversely two-lipped.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Top of scape with stamens and ovary :—en/arged. 
