point. Scape green, ancipitous, produced from the end of 
the neck of the bulb, a foot and a half long. Umbel five- or 
six-flowered ; pedicels very short; spathe-valves ovate- 
lanceolate, green at the flowering-time, two or three inches 
‘long. Ovary oblong-trigonous, green, half an inch long; 
perianth-tube subcylindrical, greenish-yellow, between two 
and three inches long; segments oblong, cuspidate, perma- 
nently ascending and much imbricated, yellow with a 
distinct green keel, an inch long. Corona green, half an 
inch long, inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube, 
furnished with a simple or obscurely toothed deltoid process 
between the base of the free portion of each filament; 
anthers fulvous, linear-oblong, versatile, under half an inch 
long. Style finally much longer than the perianth ; stigma 
capitate.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Section of flower :—of the natural size. 
