derived from the specimen, sent by Mr. Dykes, which has 
served for our plate. But the stems may attain a height 
of 6-10 inches, while the leaves may be 18 inches long 
and a quarter of an inch wide, and the spathes may be 
over 4 inches in length. On the other hand Velenovsky’s 
plants had leaves one-twelfth of an inch across or under, 
while according to him the falls may measure as much as 
an inch and a half in length by an eighth to a sixth of 
an inch in width. Mr. Dykes finds that this species is as 
easy to grow in his garden at Godalming as the well- 
known J. graminea. It loses its foliage in the autumn, 
and it is not until the end of January that the glaucous 
tips of the leaves appear. It is not fastidious as to soil 
and has done well in sand enriched with leaf mould and 
chalk, but Mr. Dykes believes that it might grow even 
better in a stiffer loam overlying chalk. It should be 
moved, if necessary, either immediately the flowers are 
over or when growth becomes active in Spring, but not 
in the autumn when the plant is dormant. 
Descriprion.—Ilerb, rootstock brown, oblique, hardly 
as thick asa little finger. Stems several, 4—5 in, high, from 
almost to quite enveloped by the leaves, their bases sur- 
rounded by the dry remains of the old foliage. Leaves 5-6 
to a stem, at flowering time barely reaching the blossoms, 
thereafter elongating and at length 10 in. long, 1—1 in. wide, 
linear, acute or very acute, glaucous, Jaxly nerved, the 
nerves rough with rather large white papillae. Syathes 
2-3, herbaceous, glaucous-green, acute or subacute, 24- 
23 in. long, about } in. wide, keeled towards the tip, 
with rough nerves like the leaves. Perianth with a 
pedicel as long as the ovary; tube over } in, long, 
widened upwards ; outer segments 1-1} in. long, with a 
wide-ovate slightly deflexed limb over ! in. long, gradu- 
ally narrowed into a linear cuneate claw, with bluish- 
purple veins in the white base, the veins confluent towards 
the margins ; inner segments 1 in. long, } in. wide, sub- 
erect, oblanceolate, obtuse, purple. Anthers yellow, over 
3 in. long. Ovary over } in. long, narrowed into the 
perianth-tube ; style-arms wide-linear ; crest subquadrate 
with faintly crenulate lobes. 
Figs. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, stigma :—all enlarged, 
