cellent botanist, who communicated the bulbs by post, in 
1874, to Kew, where they flowered in J anuary of the present — 
year, and from whom we have dried specimens from Abbot- 
tabad, in Hazara, with much narrower leaves than his own, 
the cultivated ones, or those from Kashmir and Affghanistan. 
Drscr. Corm one to two inches long, by three-quarters to 
one inch thick, almost halfmoon-shaped, slightly laterally 
compressed, pointed bluntly at the base; sheaths smooth, 
membranons, dark brown, the inner often produced upwards 
into a tube round the leaves. Leaves three to four, produced 
with the flower, sheathed at the base, narrow linear-ligulate, 
obtuse, concave, three to four, at length six to seven inches 
long, bright green. F/owers two to three, bright and almost. 
golden yellow. Perianth-tube two to three inches long, slender, 
white, sometimes purple in wild specimens ; limb one inch long, 
about two and a half inches broad when expanded ; segments 
linear-oblong, rather broader upwards, obtuse. Sfamens ex- 
tending two-thirds up the perianth limb; anthers linear, 
basifixed, much longer than the filaments. Styles filiform, 
exserted. Capsule two-thirds to one inch long, ovoid, of three 
brown leathery carpels, free at the top and narrowed into the. 
style-bases.—J/. D. H. 
