A supernumerai7 plate has been added to our fasciculus, 

 to represent the appearance of the ripe fruit. 



Bulh ovate : leaves 3 or more, upwards of 2 feet high, 

 bifarious, fistularly sheathing at the lower part, the half 

 of the sheath on the side opposite to the blade being 

 membranaceous ; blade lanceolately elongated channelled, 

 about 2 inches broad. Scape 2-3 feet high, compressed, 

 two-edged. Spathe sphacelately membranous, ovately 

 cuspidate. Flowers 3-6, deep yellow, about 6 inches 

 long, sessile or sometimes shortly pedxincled: tube up- 

 right, green, thick, fleshy, 3-cornered, continuous with 

 a several times shorter germeu, equal to the limb, curved 

 at the top : limb nodding, sixparted, stellate ; segments 

 linearly lanceolate, taper-pointed, wide apart : crown of the 

 same colour as the limb and but little shorter, oblately 

 campanulate, denticulate, 12-cleft, the clefts alternately 

 narrower, the 6 broadest bearing the stamens, marked 

 within by a green longitudinal streak below the foot of 

 every stamen. Filaments robust, roundedly subulate, short, 

 rather higher than the clefts in which they stand, conver- 

 gent below the rim of the crown: anthers incumbent, 

 slanting. Germen green, ovately 3-cornered: style fili- 

 form, 3-cornered, whitish, thicker than the filaments : stig- 

 mas 3, very sht)i*t. Capsule bulbispermous. 



