gradually from the middle to the base. Scape eight or 
nine inches long, slightly ancipitous and slightly glaucous. 
Flowers usually two or three to an umbel, quite sessile, white, 
not distinctly fragrant ; spathe-valves lanceolate, scariose. 
Ovary oblong-trigonous, half an inch long, with two ovules 
in each cell. Perianth-tube cylindrical, varying from three 
to five inches in length, greenish in the lower part, white 
upwards; segments of the perianth-limb linear, under 
three inches in length. Corona funnel-shape, from half to 
three-quarters of an inch long, and about the same in 
diameter at the throat, where it is furnished with a single 
small tooth between each of the filaments. Stamens about 
an inch shorter than the segments of the perianth-limb ; 
anthers linear, versatile, bight yellow, half or three- 
quarters of an inch long. Style in our specimens not — 
nearly reaching up to the anthers, but described by Herbert 
as overtopping them ; stigma capitate.—J. G. Baker. 
* 
Fig. 1, a couple of stamens, life size ; 2, stigma, enlarged. 
