long, stout, deeply channelled in front; sheaths four to eight 
inches long, open, green, with short rounded ligules. F/ower- 
ing scapes three inches high, as stout as the little finger ; 
lower sheaths three to four, oblong, acute, appressed, pale 
yellow-green, reticulated with brown nerves; inner narrower, 
white, with purple veins. Flowers several, three inches long. 
Ovary small, pilose. Outer or sheathing perianth two inches 
long, gradually swelling upwards, truncate at the top, with 
two subulate points, white. nner perianth-tube exserted, 
slender, terete, white; three outer segments spreading and 
recurved, two inches long, linear, with a terete subulate apex, 
white ; two upper inner segments oblong, obtuse, apiculate, 
white ; lower deeply 2-lobed, each lobe equal to the upper, 
obcordate, bright violet-purple. Anther with the connective 
dilated into a broad oblong membrane unequally cut at the 
apex. Staminodes very slender. Stigma funnel-shaped.— 
é..D, Hl. 
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Fig. 1. Flower with part of the petals removed. 2. Anther and stigma. 
3. Ovary and staminodes :—all magnified. 
