Horticultural Society for the possession of the plant from 
which our drawing was made. 
Descr. Plant from ten inches to a foot high. Leaves 
distichous, linear-ensiform, scarcely so tall as the stem, 
striated, upper ones convolute, short, forming an imperfect 
spatha. Flower solitary, handsome. Perianth nearly ses- 
sile on the elongated, obtusely trigonal germen, its ground 
colour a reddish-purple, with deeper veins ; outer segments 
broadly obovate, unguiculate, with an acute point, having 
in the middle a broad white spot, variegated with yellow, 
and marked with deep purple veins, around this the purple | 
is of a deeper and brighter hue than on the rest of the seg- 
ments: imner segments erecto-connivent, broadly-spathu- 
late, acute, waved, concave, almost as long as the outer 
ones. Styles oblong, linear, purple, carinate on the back, 
and covering the stamen, appressed to the claw of the outer 
segment of the perianth ; Stigma bifid. 
«ig. 1, Outer Segment of the Perianth: slightly magnified. 
