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the Coromandel plants, but. are informed by Mr, Herbert 
that it was imported from the East Indies. It differs from 
all by the long herbaceous round-pointed upright leaflike 
spathe, colour of the flower, and extraordinary length of 
the tube. 
. Bulb large, outside lividly purple, stoloniferous. Leaves 
thickish, multifarious, spreading, of a dark green colour, 
four feet or more in length, 4-5 inches broad, pointed, entire 
and smooth edged. Scape (sometimes two in succession) 
- compressed, green. Spathe half a foot in length, upright. 
Umbel inclined, sessile, with about 7 flowers, separated 
by bractes. Flowers peach-coloured-purple, slightly scented, 
increasing in length till they fade; when extended measur- 
ing almost a foot, mottled with white as they go off. 
Tube straight, rigid, of the thickness of a pen, pale green, 
triangular with blunted corners, not furrowed, twice the ~ 
length of the limb or more; dmb stellate, recurved, seg- 
ments narrowly lanceolate, about the third of an inch 
broad, outer ones greenish at the back. Filaments about a 
fourth shorter than the limb, slender, divaricate, deep 
purple. Style not much thicker than these, equal to the 
flower, crimson; stigma a black-red point. . 
It requires to be kept in the stove, and to be furnished 
plentifully with water. The bulb should be placed upon 
the surface of the soil. To be propagated by suckers pro- 
duced from the base of the rootstock or axis of the bulb, 
