Claremont, in August last, when we were favoured with 
the sample for the drawing. 
In proportion to the stem the inflorescence is of singular 
breadth in this species. 
Bulb ovately oblong, integuments light brown, nume- 
rous, fibrously membranous. Leaves bifarious, recumbent, 
(six?) lorate, pliant, longer than the scape (14 feet long by 
about 3 of an inch broad), edgewisely falcate alternately to 
the right and left, blunt-ended, shining on both sides. 
Scape very green, flat, about 9 inches high by about half an 
inch across or rather more, papillarily roughened, upright. 
Umbel many-(17)-flowered, alternate and 3-ranked, wide 
apart, outspread, hemispherical: spathe with 2 sphacelate 
faintly red lanceolate reflexed valves 3 times shorter than 
the peduncles: peduncles straight, unusually massive for the 
size of the flowers, 3-cornered, about twice the length of the 
corolla, greyish with a short glandular hispid pubescence. 
‚Corolla nodding, whitish pink, sixparted, irregular, turbi- 
nately rotate, about 2 inches long; segments either all con- 
verging upwards edgewisely or only one detached from the 
rest and subtending the stamineous fascicle, nearly equal, 
narrowishly ligulate, white with a deep rose-red line along 
the middle, downwards convolutely narrowed and connivent, 
very shortly connected at the base, upwards recurved, about 
2 lines broad or rather more, pointed. Stamens declined and 
assurgent, even with the corolla, alternately longer, 3 shed- 
ding the pollen earlier than the others; filaments pinkish, 
adnate to the short tubular contraction of the disk of the co- 
rolla: enthers oblong, balancing, dark purple, with a cream- 
coloured pollen. Germen oblately round, reddish green, 
slightly 3-lobed; cells closely filled by about 5 globular 
ovula in two rows: sfyle white, rather overtopping the 
stamens: stigma open, frosted, slightly trifid, lobules 
rounded. 
