Duscr. Bulb ovoid, an inch in diameter, the outer brown 
membranous tunies scarcely at all hairy inside. Stem erect, 
glabrous, one-flowered, a foot or a foot and a half long. 
Leaves three or four to a stem, rather glaucous, not hairy 
on the margin, the lower oblong-lanceolate, acute, half a 
foot long, one and a half or two inches broad, the others 
lanceolate, about an inch broad. Perianth erect, campanu- 
late, bright crimson, two or two and a half inches long; 
segments an inch and a quarter or aninch and a half broad, 
with a large cuneate purple blotch with a yellow border 
covering the whole claw to a height of nearly an inch ; three 
outer segments oblong, subacute; three inner rather broader, 
obovate-oblong, cuspidate. Stamens about an inch long, 
the same purple as the blotch of the claw of the perianth- 
segments; anthers about as long as the glabrous filament. 
Pistil a third as long as the perianth; ovary greenish, 
trigonous, a sixth of an inch in diameter; stigmas large, 
deeply channelled. Scent of the flower very faint.—J. G. 
Baker. 
Fig. 1, Blotch of the claw of the perianth-segments; 2, pistil :—both life-size. 
