and is still rare in English gardens. The material for the 
drawing of the type was a specimen in the Kew collection, 
presented by Mr. G. Maw; and of the striped variety a plant 
sent up by the Rev. H. Harper Crewe, who obtained it from 
M. Chapellier, of Paris. * 
Descr. Corm ovoid, middle-sized, the firm, brown outer 
tunics splitting up more or less into parallel fibres towards 
the base. Corm producing one to three buds, of one to five 
flowers each, the top of the flower five or six inches from the 
top of the corm. Basal spathe obsolete. Leaves five or six 
to a bud, quite cotemporary with the flowers, narrow, gla- 
brous, with revolute edges and a distinct white central band. 
Proper spathe of two valves. Perianth tube filiform, pale 
yellow, two or three inches long; limb about an inch long, 
orange-yellow, its oblong spathulate segments concolorous in 
the original vifel/inus, striped with five feathered lines down 
the back in the variety syriacus, and in a third form plain 
orange with an obscurely lineate, brownish blotch at the base ; 
throat glabrous, concolorous. Azthers lemon-yellow, about 
the same length as their filaments. S¢y/es fulvous, cut up 
into numerous diverging capillary branches.—J/. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, A plant of var. syriacus ; 2, its style branches, magnified ; 3, a plant 
of typical CO. vitellinus :—natural size. 
