one linear, three or fonr inches long, a quarter to half an inch 
broad, glaucous, channelled all down the face, obscurely ciliated 
on the edges. Perianth erect, funnel-shaped, about an inch 
long in wild, an inch and an inch and a half in cultivated 
specimens ; segments all oblong-spathulate, acute, bright 
mauve-red in the upper half of the face, passing downwards 
into a slaty lilac, the claw without any dark-coloured blotch, 
bright yellow and densely pilose at the base. Filaments 
linear, about half as long as the perianth, densely pilose at the 
base. Anthers linear-oblong, half as long as the filament. 
Ovary clavate, half an inch long. Stigmas not as broad as 
the diameter of the ovary.- — J. G . Baker . 
Fig. 1, A single stamen ; fig. 2, the pistil : — both magnified. 
