the species to the 8. Berthelotit of the Canarian Flora or the 8. 
dasyantha of the same work; for I can see no valid difference 
between the two (and both are figured), save that the former 
has three leaves, the latter only two. 
Descr. The dud is oblong-ovate, with a coat of which the upper 
part forms a short sheath around the base of the leaves, sending out 
long radicles, thick, white, and fleshy. Leaves three, lanceolate 
or linear-lanceolate, tapering towards the base, and there sheath- 
ing each other and the base of the scape. Scape rather slender, 
terete, solitary, a span to a foot long, bearing a lax raceme of 
small insignificant whitish flowers. Bracts small, subulate. Pe- 
dicels very short. Petals narrow-oblong, concave, callous at the 
tips. Stamens rather shorter than the petals. Ovary subglo- 
bose, but having three broad obtuse lobes. S#y/e about as long 
as the germen. Capsules with two seeds in each cell. 
Fig. 1. Expanded flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified. 
