membranous margins, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers 
sessile or pedicelled, two and a half to three and a half inches 
across, dark. purple. Perianth segments nearly equal, ob- 
ovate-oblong, rounded at the apex; three outer darker; claw 
banded with white, and bearing a crest of dense long white 
hairs in the middle; inner segments with narrower claws, 
less distinctly banded. Sézgmas oblong, bifid, segments nar- 
row, triangular, acute, toothed. Capsule small for the size 
of the plant, one to one and a quarter inch long, obtusely 
angled.—J. D. H. — 
