Introduced about two years ago from the Cape of Good 
Hope by Messrs. Colville, at whose nursery in the King's 
Road the present drawing was made the summer before 
last. | 
Bulb compressedly conic, lamine bifarious imbricated, 
inner ones longer. Leaves two, opposite, round-ovate, 
with a short point, coming up after the scape, shaggily and 
reflexly furred on both sides, twice shorter than the scape. 
Scape about 7 inches long, compressedly columnar, purplish, 
mottled, reflexedly hairy. Spathe of several unequal lan- 
ceolate valves, aridly membranous, reflexed. Umbel loosely 
manyflowered: pedicles smooth, filiform, reddish: corolla 
brightish pink, about half an inch long, turbinate, tube 3 
times shorter than the spreading equal /imb, segments 
ovally or obversely oblong. Stamens upright; filaments 
twice shorter than the limb, adhering to the short tubu- 
larly contracted disk of the corolla, white, stiff, subulate, 
thickish, alternately longer: anthers upright, ovally oblong, 
short, mucronate (tipped with a short distinct point), fixed 
on near the base at the back; pollen deep yellow. Germen 
roundish furrowless streakless, not much bigger than a 
grain of mustard-seed, smooth, green tinged with red; cells 
oneseeded, ovula somewhat oblong, turned downwards. 
i about the size of a pea, of a yellowish dingy green 
colour. 
