Drsor. Corm globose, an inch or more in diameter; outer 
tunics of matted or nearly free strong parallel fibres. 
Stems three or four feet in length, inflorescence included, 
simple, terete. Produced leaves about three, linear-ensiform, 
a foot or more long, half or three-quarters of an inch broad, 
narrowed gradually to the point, rigid in texture, strongly 
and prominently nerved. lowers four or six, arranged in 
a very lax erect secund spike, variable in colour, usually 
yellow, more or less flushed and spotted with scarlet; 
spathe-valves herbaceous, lanceolate, about two inches long, 
the inner rather smaller and thinner than the outer. — 
Perianth-limb narrowly funnel-shaped, curved, one and a 
half or two inches long; upper outer segments of the limb 
oblong, acute, about two inches long; upper inner obovate, — 
obtuse, minutely cuspidate, standing forward, convex on the 
back; three lower segments smaller and more spreading, — 
the lowest conspicuously deflexed. Stamens shorter than — 
the perianth-segments; anthers linear, half an inch long. 
Style-branches falcate. Capsule oblong, brown, charta- 
ceous, obtusely lobed, an inch and a half long. Seeds very 
numerous, discoid, with a broad membranous wing.— 
J. G. Baker. no 
Fig. 1, Front view of an anther; 2, back view of tPe anther ; 3, summit of the 
style, with its stigmatose branches ;—all magnified. 
