v 2 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Glohba. 



ed. Scapes radical, from three to lour inches long, often 

 a v. ml arise from the same cluster of root-, erect, enveloped 

 in three or four, alternate, smooth, short sheaths. Panicle 

 erect, about a foot high, including the scape, and expand- 

 ing Dearly as much, the whole a very lively bluish purple. 

 Ramifications alternate, long, simple, diverging, bearing in 

 succession numerous, alternate, sessile, small, lovely purple 

 ami yellow flowers, Erodes solitary, light purple, smooth ; 

 those of the ramifications oblong; those of the flowers cor- 

 date, Flower* solitary, sessile in the axillsof their proper 

 In- Kt.s. Calyx superior, clavate, smooth, light purple; 

 mouth three-toothed, permanent, >v it li the lower half of the 

 tube of the eorol. Carol; tube long and very slender ; the 

 lower half, which is inclosed in the tube of the calyx, pro- 

 jecting horizontally; the upper half erect; at the angle, 

 which those portions of the tube make with each other, and 

 which is nearly a right one. the flower drops, leaving the 

 Lower half to wither. Border single and three-parted; up- 

 per division erect, pressing on the back of the have of 

 the filament, oblong, boat-shaped; lower two divisions 

 obliquely cordate, and reflexed, nil the three are of alight 

 purple colour. Lip cuneate, deeply two-parted, much 

 larger than the dii isions of the exterior border, deep orange 



yellow, forming a pretty contrast with the lively purple of 

 every other part of the panicle. Filament very long, very 

 slender, on the first day much incurved, afterwards revolute, 

 finch grooved on the anderside for the reception of the style ; 

 near the base are fw0,verj tong,slender, Hat, subulate, diverg- 

 ing, recurred wings. In my other six species with terminal 

 inflorescence, these are entirely wanting, but the inner two- 

 lobed border is present. . Inther double, and enlarged at 

 the sides with two, broad, reniform wings. Germ beneath, 

 oval, with nine longitudinal ridges, a transverse section ex- 

 hibits one cell only, with numerous seeds, affixed to three 

 parietal receptacles. Style most slender. Sliama funnel- 

 shaped. Capsule globular, purple, size of a small cherry, 



