Bidb oval, with no neck. Leaves ligulate, pale green, 

 falcate, flat, erect, roughish at the edge. Scape ascending, 

 compressed, somewhat glaucous, a foot and a half high. 

 Umbel spreading, with about 30 flowers. Spathe 2-leaved ; 

 leaflets membranous, pale brown, acuminate. Peduncles 

 taper. Perianthium 6-parted, nearly equally spreading, 

 segments flesh-coloured, linear-oblong, wavy, bluntish, 

 somewhat recurved ; the inner the broadest. Stamens in- 

 serted into the throat, declinate, rather shorter than the 

 perianth ; filaments subulate. Ovarium green, taper, oval, 

 3-celled, with numerous fleshy, distichous ovules. Style 

 filiform, declinate; stigma small, obscurely 3-lobed, papil- 



lose. 



J. L. 



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