Descr. Bulb long, narrow, ovoid, with loose vertically 
striated firm brown outer tunics. Basal leaves one or two, 
linear or lanceolate, about a foot long, under an inch broad, 
firm in texture, glabrous, narrowed from the middle to 
the base and an acute point. Stem erect, a foot or more 
long, branched in the upper half, each fork subtended 
by one or more reduced leaves. lowers six to twelve 
_ to a stem, bright yellow, drooping, on peduncles two or 
three times as long as themselves. Perianth globose, about 
an inch in length and diameter; outer segments rather 
more membranous in texture than the inner, tinted with 
green in the bud, oblong, acute, glabrous; three inner 
segments orbicular, more or less pilose on the face, minutely 
ciliated round the margin, furnished above the naked claw 
with a large saccate foveole, with a ridge of bristly hairs 
incurved over it from above. Stamens half as long as the 
perianth-seements; anthers oblong, pale yellow, obtuse or 
minutely apiculate, rather shorter than their flattened fila- 
ments. Ovary oblong, triquetrous; stigmas three, falcate, 
linear, sessile, deeply channelled down the face. Capsule 
oblong, an inch long, deeply three-lobed, its cells promi- 
nently winged on the back.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Inner segment of perianth, xatwral size ; 2, margin of inner segment of 
perianth ; 3, a stamen; 4, the pistil; 5, horizontal section of ovary :—all more or 
less magnified. 
