produced an inch above its neck. Leaves two or four to a 
bulb, narrow linear, glaucescent, about as long as the scape. 
Scape slender, terete, a quarter or half a foot long, bearing 
a single erect flower on a very short pedicel. Perianth 
bright lemon-yellow; tube subcylindrical, greenish, half or 
three-quarters of an inch long; segments oblong, spreading, 
cuspidate, half as long as the tube. Corona cup-shaped, 
orange-yellow, less than half as long as the perianth-seg- 
ments, the throat with three deep rounded dentate lobes. 
Anthers all six nearly sessile in the perianth-tube. Style 
much shorter than the perianth-tube.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, section of a flower of WN. pallidulus; 2, section of a flower of N. 
Graellsii ; 3, section of a flower of VN. rupicola :—all enlarged. 
