Descr. Bulb as large as a wild hyacinth, covered with 

 brown scales. Leaves numerous, four to five inches long, on 

 rather slender petioles, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, ob- 

 scurely nerved in a young state, as figured, ribbed and 

 marked with transverse veins when old. Scape erect, six to 

 eight inches long, terete, solid. Umbel six- to eight-flowered ; 

 spathes membranous. Peduncles one inch long. Perianth 

 white, three inches in diameter ; segments oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, all but the lowest traversed with fine, broad, pale 

 rose-coloured veins; uppermost broadest, lowermost narrow- 

 est and pointed. Filaments slender, all declinate ; anthers 

 yellow. Stigma trifid, lobes acute. — J, 1). H. 



Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Transverse section of ovary: — both magnified. 





