to elicit a single stable discriminating mark except size, 
'They are all hardy greenhouse plants, and flower nearly 
together in the autumn. Fleruosa, in our apprehension, is 
a point at which the genus connects itself with Bruns- 
VIGIA. 
Bulbs ovate, covered with numerous whitish membrano- 
fibrous integuments; fibres silky, dúctile. Leaves bifa- 
-rious, lorately elongated, slightly concave and involute, 
biuntly acuminate, minutely whealed or pustulous, more 
conspicuously so at the under surface, where they are of a 
paler hue, from 9 inches to a foot long, and about half an 
inch broad. Scape 1-2 feet high, round, about as thick as 
the tube of a middle-sized pen. Umbel few-flowered, loose; 
peduncles straight and rigid, green, brittle.  Spathe shorter 
than these, lanceolate, sphacelate, reddish. The lower seg- 
ment generally keeps in its place under the style, and does 
not slant away with the others towards the upper middle 
one, as in humilis, but we are doubtful if this is constantl 
the case. Stamens fasciculate, declined.- Style declined, 
bowed and red upwards: stigmas diverging, subpubescent : 
germen 3-lobed, trigonal with rounded corners, knobbed : 
loculaments 8-seeded, or thereabouts. Those in undulata 
and humilis are fewer seeded. i 
The drawing was made in Mr. Griffin's garden at South 
Lambeth, where it flowers in the autumn. 
A hardy greenhouse plant; multiplying by offsets from 
the bulb, ' 
