inner whitish. Leaves two to a scape, contemporary with 
the fiowers, suberect, linear, five or six inches long, under 
half an inch broad, green, deeply channelled down the face 
and hooded at the tip, tinted with purple towards the base. 
Scape very slender, terete, three or four inches long, bearing 
from one to four laxly corymbose flowers ; pedicels ascend- 
ing, reaching an inch or an inch and a half in length; 
bracts obsolete. Perianth five or six lines long; tube 
campanulate ; segments oblong, two or three times as long 
as the tube, spreading when the flower is fully expanded, 
white, keeled and flushed with lilac-blue. Stamens a third 
as long as the perianth-segments ; filaments strap-shaped, 
inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube, nearly equal, 
touching edge to edge permanently, but not united ; anthers 
linear-oblong, rather overtopping the filaments. Ovary 
globose, bright blue; style very short; stigma capitate, 
reaching only to the base of the anthers and the throat of 
the perianth-tube.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, vertical section of a flower; 2, side view of a stamen; 3, back view of 
the same; 4, front view’ of the same ; 5, perianth-tube, with the six stamens in- 
serted at its throat; 6, horizontal section of ovary, all enlarged ; 8 and 9, two 
forms of bulb and radical fibres, life-size. 
