brown colour, tipped with green. Perianth campanulate, an 
inch and a half in length, and expanding to about the same 
width ; of a bright pink on both sides, with darker coloured 
veins. The tube is shallow and of a pale shining green, with 
the throat almost filled by the fleshy membrane at the base 
of the petal, to which the filaments are attached. Segments 
ovate-acuminate, each about half an inch broad, nearly 
equal, and striated with green at the base. The three outer 
divisions overlap the three inner ones, the former of which 
have each a small greenish tip. Stamens declinate, three 
long and three short; the longest being rather more than 
half the length of the perianth. Anthers very large, deep 
yellow, versatile. Qvary oblong, three-sided, thickest towards 
the base of the flower, three-celled with numerous seeds in 
each cell. Ovules apparently flat, laid over one another, and 
attached to the placenta opposite the angular part of the 
ovary ; the three dissepiments being alternate with the three 
angles. Style filiform, the same colour as the segments and 
exceeding half their length. Stigma 3-lobed, each lobe being 
one-fourth of an inch long, clavate, round, and recurved. 
** From the little knowledge we have of this plant, we are 
inclined to consider it as half hardy, requiring only protec- 
tion from frost. The soil around the bulbs, when received, 
was of a very sandy nature. We have, therefore, grown it 
in a similar mixture of loam, peat, and sand, in which it 
seems to thrive pretty well, although we have not been able 
to increase it. Its flowering season is October. The flowers 
remain in perfection for eight or ten days. 
“ Fig. 1. represents the scape three days before the flower 
expanded. 2. The flower when open. 3. The same when 
shut, or when the sun is not shining upon it. 4. An ovary 
with the base of the perianth. 5. A section of the same.” 
Mr. Booth considered it a distinct species, but Mr. Her- 
bert has referred it without any doubt to his H. gracilifolius 
as a variety. 
