Plants of L Leichtlini were purchased for the Eoyal 

 Gardens, Kew, in 1893, from Messrs. Herb and Wulle, of 

 Naples, which flowered in an open border in May. It was 

 introduced into cultivation by Dr. Kegel, of the Imperial 

 Botanic Gardens of St. Petersburgh, who received it from 

 Bokhara, where it was found by Korolkov. 



Descr. — Whole plant twelve to eighteen inches high. 

 Bootstock stout, creeping. Stem leafy at the base, simple, 

 bearing one head of two to three flowers. Leaves about 

 as long as the stem, half an inch broad, ensiform, obtuse, 

 pale green, more or less glaucous. Valves of spathe two to 

 three inches long, herbaceous, with scarious tips. Flowers 

 very shortly pedicelled. Perianth-tube an inch and a half 

 long, terete, gradually dilated from base to tip ; segments 

 of limb sub-equal, three inches long, cuneate-obovate, all 

 with a narrow beard of yellow hairs from the claw to 

 about the middle ; margins undulate and crisped, tips 

 rounded, violet-blue in the middle, with broadly, copper- 

 coloured margins and darker veins, outer segments 

 recurved from the middle, inner erect. Anthers very long 

 and slender. Style-arms half as long as the perianth- 

 segments, erect, ovate, tip bifid.— J. B. H. 



Fig. 1 and 2, anthers ; 3, npper part of style-arm with eteati—all enlarged. 



