sisting of short closely interwoven stellately compound 
hairs) that covers the back of the leaves. 
Rootstock bulbiform, with the bud at the top. Leaves 
radical, many, disposed in a 3-cornered fascicle, broad 
subulate, sharply channelled and keeled, about six inches 
long and less than an inch broad, of deep dark green at 
the upper side and smooth, tomentosely whitened under- 
neath, generally waved at the top. Stem shorter than the 
leaves, with a faint appearance of tawny yellow through 
the white of the pubescence, which consists of long pen- 
cilled hairs mixed with short starry snow-white cottony 
locks. Umbel of two peduncles, larger than the flowers. 
Corolla golden yellow within, stellately spreading, about an 
inch and half in diameter, permanent, compositely furred 
and of a yellowish green without; segments reflexed at the 
sides, outer ones oblong, mucronate, densely bearded at the 
back of the tip, inner ones broader oval obtuse pointless with 
a longitudinal hairy line on the outside. Style columnar, 
thick, obtusely 3-cornered, shorter than the stamens. Sig- 
mas 3, deep yellow, linearly channelled, grown to the corners 
of the upper half of the style. Germen continuous with the 
round solid peduncle, shortly turbinate, hirsute, several times 
shorter than the corolla, 3-celled: ovules many, in two 
rows fixed to the upper part of the inner corner of the cells, 
globular. 
We have always found the peduncles piped or hollow 
at the upper part in every species of this genus that we ex- 
amined except the present. 
