The figures of the species in Redout^'s work have been 

 taken from dried samples. The drawing of the present 

 variety was made at Mr. Griffin's^ South Lambeth, where the 

 bulbs had been obtained from Lisbon ; and are, we believe, 

 the first that have been seen in our gardens, at least we find 

 no mention of the species having been ever introduced. We 

 suppose it would do well in the open ground. 



Leaves membranous, much longer than the scape, nar- 

 rowly linear, blunt, convex and fluted on the outside, on 

 the inside streakless and channelled, flat at the upper part, 

 greyish green (viewed through a glass, thickly beset with 

 white minute vesicular particles). Scape produced in the 

 spring, 4-5 inches high, upright, round. Spathe of one 

 piece; upright, splitting into two segments: peduncle stifF- 

 ish, recuiTed. Germen short, oblong, green, streakless, 

 furrowless. Corolla white, finn, turbinately campanulate, 

 j^egmenf* with a thickened fluted longitudinal disk without 

 any keel or channel ; outer w^s ovally oblonjg, taper-pointed> 

 quite entire, flat, with a frosted pubescent mucro (distinct 

 point), hooked at the base; inner ones rather shorter and 

 broader, obovately elliptical, rounded at the point, with a 

 nearly obsolete mucro, quite entire. Stamens upright, con- 

 verging, about i shorter than the corolla : filaments 3-4 

 times shorter than the anthers, standing apart, imbowed, 

 compressedly linear, white: anthers deep yellow, large, sa- 

 gittately linear, fixed at the back of their base, fasciculately 

 contiguous, opening on each side at the top by a small rent. 

 Staminiferous disk yellowish green, with 6 crenated plaits, 

 and 6 small lobes, which alternate with the filaments. 

 Sti/le white, but little longer than the stamens, filiform, 

 three-furrowed, terminated by a small blunt stigmatose tip. 



