Descr. Rhizome short, creeping near the surface of the 
ground, about a third of an inch in diameter, the crowded 
relics of former leaves splitting up into fibres. Leaves three, 
produced to a tuft, bright green, erect, firm in texture, a 
quarter to half an inch broad, the largest about a foot long at 
the flowering time, lengthening out to a foot and a half 
afterwards. Stem slender, terete, arcuate, one-headed, about 
a foot long, bracteated by two or three linear adpressed re- 
duced leaves. Spathe two-flowered, three-valved, the outer 
valves linear, green at the flowering-time, one and a half or 
two inches long. Pedicel as long as the ovary at the flower- 
ing-time, afterwards an inch or more long. Ovary cylindri- 
cal-trigonous, about half an inch long. Perianth with a broadly 
funnel-shaped tube an eighth or a sixth of an inch long above 
the ovary ; outer segments of the limb (falls) an inch long, 
spreading falcately, with a bright lilac almost orbicular blade 
with a couple of white spots at the base, which is half as long 
as the claw, the latter paler in colour, spotted and veined 
with deep lilac, and furnished from top to bottom with a 
shallow bright yellow crest ; inner segments of the limb 
oblanceolate-unguiculate, pale lilac, unspotted, permanently 
erect, rather shorter than the outer ones. Branches of the 
style, including their lanceolate crests, as long as the inner 
segments of the perianth, with which they coincide in colour. 
Capsule an inch long, with three lanceolate acuminate diverg- 
ing valves. — J. G . Baker . 
Fig. 1, An outer segment of the perianth, enlarged : fig. 2, capsule split open, 
natural size. 
