204 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



Scapes, just sufficient to elevate the flowers above ground, embraced 

 by a few common sbeatbs of rich greenish-purple colour, shaded 

 with pink. 



Flov^ers. — Scapose ; from four to six to the scape ; very large, of 

 various colours which are all harmoniously blended in one and the 

 same flower from coerulean-white, pink, yellow to deep purple. 



Bracts, two to each flower, surrounding the base of the germ ; 

 the inner one has its apex bifid ; the exterior or longest is here only 

 about half the length of the calyx. 



Calyx. — Rising from the summit of the root; white, one-leaved, 

 membranaceous ; as long as the tube of the corolla ; somewhat gibbous ; 

 apex generally two-toothed, and of a dotted, purplish colour. 



Corolla. — Tube long, slender, cylindric, nearly erect ; obliquely 

 funnel-shaped towards the mouth. Petals, 6, in two rows of three 

 each. Exterior row of petals drooping, linear, white tinged with purple, 

 with margins involute. Inner row of petals has two of them longer 

 than the third when the flower fully opens ; erect, lanceolar, acute ; 

 colour principally coerulean-white with pink or crimson central and 

 marginal streaks. The third petal inferior, deeply divided into two 

 broad obcordate, deflected, pointed lobes of a deep purple colour 

 particularly towards the centre and base. This deep division of the 

 lower petal gives the flower the appearance of a four-petalled organ. 



Filament. — Purple arising from the base of the calyx (Pheede) ; 

 short, erect, broad, inserted on the base of the uppermost two 

 interior divisions of the corolla (Pox.). The corolla is deciduous; 

 calyx thickens, bearing with it seminal capsules. 



x4lnther. — Linear and enlarged with an ovate two-forked yellow- 

 coloured, somewhat recurved crest. Rheede calls it a " cornute 

 yellow tongue." 



Germ. — Ovate. 



Style. — Filiform. 



Stigma. — Funnel-shaped. 



Remarks. — The plant figured in Curtis' Botanical 3Iagazine, 

 Vol. XXIII., Plate No. 920, p. 920, is by no means one that would 

 give an accurate idea of the vivid colours of the plant, or the 

 profusion of the fasciculated tubers as seen in the Indian specimens. 

 This can be easily accounted for from the fact that that picture was 

 taken from a plant grown in the Brompton Botanic Garden, and 



