Mr. Griffin thinks that the bulbs of the two are different. 

 But as the distinctions we observed, were such as we con- 

 ceive to be within the scope of both seminal variation and 

 exotic culturcj we think it safer to record the plant aa a dis- 

 tinguished variety of the present species, than to separate it 

 by a new name, before either the permanence of the dif* 

 ferences has been proved, or its original abode ascertained. 



The dmwing was taken in May last, at Mr. Griffin*s, at 

 South Lambeth, where the plant flowered in the hothouse. 

 There are other specimens of it both in the Cambridge and 

 Liverpool botanic gardens. 



Bulb oblong, with dark brown membranous integu- 

 ments. Leaves several, in different directions, recurved, 

 convolutely sheathing below, longer than the flqwer-stem, 

 inner ones narrower, more upright, sharply channelled. 

 Flowerstem from a foot and a half to two feet high or mope, 

 round, very faintly and bluntly two-edged, glaucous, solid, 

 Spatke two-valved, dry, acuminate, twice shorter than the 

 ^mbel. Flowers 6^, from 6 to 9 inches long, rose-coloured 

 and white, sweet-scented: "peduncles very short, nearly as 

 thick as the germen. Tube of the corolla linear, obtusely 

 3-cornered, sometimes curved, resembling a peduncle, 

 smooth at the orifice: limb turbinately eampanulate, slightly 

 semiringent, sixparted quite to the base, nearly twice shorter 

 than the tube, segments ovally oblong, three outer ones tho 

 broadest, with a hooked point. Filaments crimson, inclined, 

 about a third shorter than the limb: anthers balanced, 

 when the pollen is evacuated curved like a crescent : pollen 

 ^ulphur-coloured. AiYy/e very slender, crimson f stigma de^ 

 pressedly headed, slightly trian^lar, subpubescent, Cflf|fH 

 9^^e bulbispermous. 



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