June last. The white one has been fi-equently mistaken for 

 arahkum, a veiy distinct species, and remarkable for its 

 black-green shining and nearly globular germen, faithfully 

 represented by the figure in Curtis's Magazine. 



Bulb tunicate, nearly round. Leavejt several, in dif- 

 ferent directions, lorately tapered, recurved and usually re- 

 cumbent, flattish, shining, edged with a fine short down, 

 about 5 inches long, embracing each other convolutely at 

 the base. Scape round, glaucous, a foot and a half high, 

 flexuosely upright. Raceme manyflowered, corymbosely 

 fastigiate, about half a foot long, at first of an orange- 

 yellow, afterwards strawcoloured. Bractes single, convo- 

 lutely ovate, with a long point, twice shorter than the 

 pedicles or more, these last being about an inch and a half 

 in length. Corolla rotately campanulate, about an inch 

 and a half aci'oss, converging over the germen soon after 

 expansion, at no time completely and flatly expanded, seg- 

 ments elliptically oblong, nearly equal, concave, lapping 

 over each other by the edges of the sides. Stamens 3 times 

 Shorter than the corolla, from upright spreading, bent in- 

 wards at the top, ash-coloured ; filaments subulate, winged 

 at the lower part, the wings of the alternate ones broader 

 and deeper than those of the others, and furnished at the top 

 with two blunt-topped convergent teeth. Germen asli- 

 coloured, oblong, obtusely three-cornered, slightly 6-fur- 

 rowed; style continuous, short, thickish, three-cornered: 

 stigma 3-iobedly headed, slightly pubescent, shorter than 

 the style. 



An ornamental greenhouse plant of easy culture. Propa- 

 gated by offsets from the bulb. ■ . 



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