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the three outer green; with the three inner white-yellow, the three 

 outer greenish ; with the three inner blue-while, the three outer 

 greenish; with the three inner white, the three outer green; with 

 corollas wholly yellow; or wholly blue, or rose-coloured with a yellow 

 base ; also in the size of" the flowers. 



The fourth species has the scape simple or branched, somewhat 

 compressed, striated, smooth, sheathed at bottom with leaves, from a 

 hand to a fool in height : the leaves nerved and striated, distich, 

 upright, smooth, a span long: the flowers three or more, large, wilh 

 the rachis between the flowers flexuose : the spalhe nerved and 

 netted, gray, with a dusky lip: tube of the corolla only a line in 

 length: border divided beyond the middle, but not to the tube: seg- 

 ments large, ovate-oblong, very blunt, s|)rcading. 



It varies with the corolla purple, red and white, yellow; wilh llie 

 scape very short and sini|)le, higher and branched, and bulbilerous. 



The fifth has a netted bulb, the size of a hazel mil: lh(^ scape 

 simple, round, upright, smooth, from a hand lo a foot in height and 

 more: the leaves four or five, linear, five-nerved, the middle nerv^e 

 and edges thicker, acute, upright, shorter by half than ihc scape : 

 the flowers j)ointing one way (very seldom one only) on two 

 branches, often from five to nine on a scarcely flexuose rachis : the 

 spathes submembranaceous, awn-toothed: the corollas white flesh- 

 coloured. 



It varies with the segments of the borders of the corolla of a deep 

 and elegant purple-violet colour within, three of ihem of the same 

 colour on the outside, but the three others allernalely of a pale dirty 

 violet; one of these with two on the side of it has a double band in 

 the throat meeting at one end; and, according to Mr. Salisbury, 

 Avith whitish corollas, having a pur{)le star, violet-coloured and yel- 

 low. In Miller's figures, with ihe corolla of a beautiful jnirple on 

 the oulsid(% but while within, and the stem terminated by two or 

 three flowers; widi the stalk terminated by two large flowers; the 

 outside of a violet colour, edged wilh Avhile, and the inside pale blue; 

 and with one flower, and ihe corolla of a most beautiful purple co- 

 lour both within and without. 



