oblong lanceolate, subacute, with many strong well marked 
nerves, and transverse reticulations. Scape thicker than the 
petiole, terete, one and a half feet high; bracts five to six, 
one to one and a half inches long, gradually tapering from a 
broad base, recurved. Flowers ten to thirteen ; pedicels short, 
green, about one inch long. Ovary small, globose. Perianth 
four inches long by four and a half inches broad when fully 
expanded, tube cylindric, limb gibbous at the base, broadly 
funnel-shaped, lobes subequal, lanceolate, the lower shorter 
and narrower, the three upper approximate, each two and a 
half inches long by two-thirds of an inch broad, recurved, 
acuminate, of a fine blue-lilac colour, white in the middle and 
at the base. Stamens inserted at the mouth of the tube, the 
upper erect, the rest declinate. Anthers pale yellow. Stigma 
quite entire. Fruit (from Vellozo’s drawing) as large as a 
chesnut.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ovary, section of perianth-tube, stamens, and style; 2, transverse 
section of ovary; 3, a pair of ovules :—all magnified. 
