Bingham, and a beautiful coloured drawing, which was 
made from his plant by Mrs. Miles, is now lying before me. 
Descr. Bulb globose, two or three inches in diameter. 
Leaves six to nine, springing from the very base of the 
peduncle, lorate, flaccid, glaucescent, glabrous on the 
margin, withered at the tip by the time the plant is in 
flower, a foot and a half long, two inches broad at the 
middle. Peduncle terete, glaucous, stiffly erect, three or 
four feet long. Flowers very numerous, forming a dense 
globose umbel four inches in diameter; spathe-valves two, 
membranous, ovate, cuspidate, soon falling. Perianth 
bright lilac, one-fifth of an inch long; segments oblanceo- 
late-oblong, obtuse, spreading widely when the flower is 
fully expanded. Stamens half as long again as the 
perianth-segments; filaments subulate, connected m a 
short collar at the very base and lanceolate above it; 
anthers minute, oblong. Ovary depresso-globose; style 
subulate, a quarter of an inch long.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, The whole plant, much reduced in size; 2,a single flower; 3, front 
view of an anther; 4, back view of an anther; 5, the pistil:—al/ more or less en- 
larged, 
