The drawing was taken in the conservatory at South 

 Lambethj in May last. 



" The whole plant is quite smooth. Bulb ovately 

 round, compactly scaled, with brown integuments. Leaves 

 radical, generally three, filiform, semicylindrical pointed, 

 shining, purplish at the base, green as to the rest, more or 

 less flexuose, reclined, stifiish, the largest sometimes a foot 

 in length, together with the centrical scape all enclosed at 

 the base by one or two scariose pale coloured transvereely 

 wrinkled rootsheuths, about half an inch long, splitting and 

 turning to one side when the plant flowers. Scape round, 

 simple, shining, flexuose, upright, about the length and 

 diameter of the leaves, purplish below. Raceme straight. 

 Flowers without scent, about seven. Peduncles hardly half 

 an inch long, spreading, subtended by a lanceolately taper- 

 pointed bracte. Segments of the corolla oblong, obtuse, 

 slightly concave, wide-spread, whitish, with a green (or 

 purplish) vertical line along the middle of both surfaces, 

 three alternate ones broader than the other three. Filaments 

 subulate, equal, beardless, upright, twice shorter than the 

 corolla, white. Anthers oblong, upright, yellow. Germen 

 superior, oblong, three-cornered. Sfi/le filiform, ascend- 

 ing, white, the length of the stamens. Sf/irma slightly 

 (.capitate, villous." 



We had no opportunity of inspecting the plant in blos- 

 som, and have taken the above description of the species 

 from Jacquin. 



