from whose garden at Godalming came the material on 
which our illustration has been based, as a member of the 
Pseudevansia group, it now appears that its true position in 
the genus is near the Western Chinese J, Delavayi, Mich., 
in the Apogon group. Its cultivation offers no especial 
difficulty and its propagation is easy. Mr. Dykes has called 
attention to the peculiar liability of this species to consider- 
able variation in the form and coloration of the standards, 
and to some variation in the foliage. In imported plants 
he finds that all the leaves have a curiously polished upper 
surface, whereas in some seedlings there may be found 
leaves that are distinctly glaucous on both surfaces, while 
other shoots on the same plants bear leaves which show the 
characteristic polished upper surface. 
_Descriprion.—Herb ; in cultivation sometimes nearly 3 ft. 
high, in a wild state rarely so tall ; rootstock wide-creeping, 
rather slender, clothed with the fibrous remains of the 
spathes. Leaves linear, acute, 10-24 in. long, 1—3 in. wide, at 
first erect, the upper half ultimately drooping, finely but 
distinctly nerved, more or less glaucous on one side. Scape 
nearly cylindric, solid, sparingly branched or often un 
branched. Spathe 2-valved and 2-flowered ; valves lanceo- 
late, acute or almost acuminate, herbaceous, green, about 
3 in. long. Pedicels in flower 1-2 in., at length 3 in. long. 
Perianth purple-violet, variegated, nearly 3 in. across ; tube 
about 3 in. long; outer segments unbearded and without 
crests, the somewhat spreading claw rather broad and about 
as long as the limb, which is 11-11 in. long, obovate, or 
when flattened out obovate-rounded, and spreading OF 
slightly drooping, flushed at the base with yellow, splashed 
with white in the middle and beyond this purple-violet ; 
inner segments obliquely erect, oblanceolate, 14—13 in. long, 
narrowed to a slender claw and of a violet tint. Amthers 
lin, long. Style-arms blue, including the crests 13—1% in. 
ong, the lobes rounded, overlapping, the crests 5 lin. long 
and 6 lin, wide. Ovary 3-gonous. Capsule oblong, 3- 
gonous, 1}—2 in, long, the sides 7-9 lin. wide. Seeds sub- 
orbicular, flattened, 2-21 lin. wide, dark brown with pale 
margins. : 
Figs. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, 
seat ~ i 8 igma; ° 5 1 :—all enlaryed 
except 4 and 5, which are of na ema; 2 capsule; 5 and 6, seeds:—a 
tural size, 
