Descr. Bulb small, globose; outer tunics of fine fibres, 
netted in the upper part. Leaves generally two to a bulb, 
linear, bright green, flaccid, deeply channelled down the 
face, shorter than the scape. Scape slender, terete, a foot 
or a foot and a half long. Flowers ten or twenty, 
hyacinth-blue, inodorous, arranged in a dense umbel; 
spathe-valves two or three, small, brown, lanceolate ; 
pedicels cernuous, shorter than the flowers. Perianth 
infundibuliform, an inch long; segments oblong, acute, as 
long as the tube; three inner rather crisped. Stamens 
biseriate, inserted near the throat of the perianth-tube; 
three outer subsessile; three inner with short filaments ; 
anthers small, oblong. Pistil about as long as the perianth- 
tube; ovary distinctly stalked.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Bulb, life-size ; 2, a flower, cut open; 3, anther, front view; 4, anther, 
back view; 5, pistil:—all enlarged. 
