from the Lebombo Mountains. Our drawing was made 
from a specimen that flowered at Kew in October, 1878. 
Desor. Bulb as large as a man’s head, with a short neck 
and copious brown membranous tunics. Leaves lanceolate- 
lorate, not fully developed till after the flowers, decumbent, 
three feet long, four inches broad, acute, glaucous, distinctly 
ciliated. Scape ancipitous, above an inch in thickness, 
pale green, at most a foot long. Flowers thirty or forty in 
a dense umbel; spathe-valves lanceolate-deltoid, three inches 
long, tinted red; pedicels erect, half or three-quarters of 
an inch long. Perianth funnel-shaped, seven or eight inches 
long, cernuous; ovary oblong, green; tube cylindrical, 
about three inches long; limb four or four and a half inches 
long, its segments oblanceolate-oblong, acute, suffused with 
bright red down the back, permanently connivent in the 
lower half, reflexing in the upper. filaments declinate, - 
about as long as the perianth-segments; anthers linear- 
oblong, versatile, under half an inch long. Style very 
slender, declinate, bright red towards the tip, as long as 
the perianth ; stigma capitate.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, the whole plant, reduced ; 2 and 3, portions of the edge of the leaf; 4, 
stamens and perianth-segments; 5, two anthers; 6,-horizontal section of the — 
ovary :—all more or less enlarged. 
