but rendered conspicuous by their lively blue colour. The leaves 
are singularly twisted, rigid, convolute; but so enlarged at the 
base, that the plant there appears quite bulbous. 
Fig. 1. Segments of the calyx. Fig. 2. Flower, from which the calyx is 
removed. Fig. 3. Segment of the corolla. Fig. 4. Stamens and pistil. 
Fig. 5. Anther. Fig. 6. Section of the germen. Fig. 7. One of the 
stigmas.-— more or less magnified. 
