Unfortunately no record was kept at the Nursery of the 
exact locality where it was found, or of its discovery. 
Dusor. Rootstock tuberous, broadly ovoid, one to one and 
a half inches in diameter, green, fleshy, sending out very 
stout worm-like tomentose roots, and from its side the young 
stem of the following year. Stem eighteen inches high, 
erect, slender, with ten or twelve distichous leaves. Leaves 
six to eight inches long by one and a half inches broad, 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, bright green, 
with a very narrow brown edge, base contracted into a 
very short petiole; sheath slender, pale, with short rounded 
auricles at the mouth. lowers four inches long, few, erect, 
in a terminal subsessile spike with a slender rachis. Bracts 
two, one and a half inches long, spathaceous, linear-oblong, 
obtuse, very membranous, hyaline, pale orange-red. Caly 
shorter than the bracts, tubular, with a split mouth and 
rounded retuse tip. Corolla pale yellow-green; tube two — 
inches long, swollen above the middle ; lobes one-third of an 
inch long, ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, concave, erect, 
greener than the tube. Jip reduced to a mere point ab 
the base of the filament. Filament one and a half inches 
long, elongate, boat-shaped, being swoilen in the middle 
and open in front, slightly curved, exserted far beyond the 
perianth, contracted into a long point at the tip, straw- 
coloured; anther shortly linear-oblong, orange-yellow. | 
Ovary very, short, pubescent, three-celled, many-ovuled, 
crowned with two oblong stylodes; style very slender, 
exserted beyond the anther, stigma funnel-shaped ; mouth 
truncate, entire, not ciliate.—J. D. H. 
: Fig. 1, Reduced view of whole plant ; 2, rootstock; and 3, stem of the natural 
size; 4, calyx clothed at the base with the base of the inner bract (concealing the 
ovary); 5, corolla and stamen; 6, stamen; 7, top of style and stigma; 8, ovary 
and stylodes ; 9, transverse section of ovary ; 10, ovules:—all but figs. 1, 2, and 3 
enlarged. 
