Desfontaines in 1798, and then as J. unguicularis by Poiret, 
in 1799. 
Duscr. Rhizome creeping, as thick as the thumb, pale, and 
with pale brown membranous sheaths. eaves one to one and 
a half foot long, one-sixth to one-third of an inch broad, 
erect, slender, flat, thin, striated, attenuated to long sharp 
points, bright green, shorter or longer than the scapes. 
Scape erect, slender, sheathed by slender appressed spathes, 
one-flowered. Ovary narrow, slender, one inch or more 
long. lowers sweet-scented, two to two and a half inches 
diameter. Claws of the perianth segments yellowish, veined 
with red-purple, one and a half inch long, gradually dilating 
into broadly oblong spathulate, subequal, entire, obtuse, 
unbearded lamine ; outer leaflets recurved, pale violet, mottled 
below the middle with pale yellow, and with a strong deep 
yellow central band; izzer rounded at the top, apiculate, of 
a uniform pale violet colour. Stigmas deeply cleft into linear 
lobes which are acutely 2-fid at the apex, and usually single 
toothed on the outer margin —/. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Portion of styles, stigmas, and anther :—magnified. 
