are indebted to W. B. Lyle, Esq., of Kirkley Vale Estate, 
Natal. It flowered in May profusely, but the scape, which 
in our specimen is no thicker than the little finger, 1s as 
thick as a child’s wrist in a plant which flowered in Mr. 
Gumbleton’s garden, near Cork, and of which that gentle- 
man kindly sent a drawing to Kew. ; 
Descr. Bulb globose, one and a half to three inches in 
diameter. Leaves three to five, their sheaths forming an 
erect stem stouter than the scape; blade six to fourteen 
inches long by two to five inches broad, elliptic-lanceolate 
or oblong, base amd tip acute or rounded, substance thin, 
with nine to ten stout nerves on each side of the stout 
midrib, joined by numerous straight transverse nervules, 
pale bright green. Scape ten to twelve inches high, one- 
half to one inch in diameter, green and spotted with brown. 
Umbel globose, five to seven inches in diameter, many- and 
dense-flowered; spathes about an inch long, lanceolate, 
acuminate, membranous, deciduous ; pedicels short. Flowers 
scarlet ; perianth-tube an inch long or more, segments one 
to one and a quarter inch long, linear, obtuse, spreading, 
at length reflexed. Stamens nearly two inches long, 
aba anthers small, linear. Style very slender, twisted. 
—J.D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced figure of the plant; 2, section of tube of corolla, with segment 
and stamen ; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, ovary and style; 6, transverse section of ovary : 
—-all enlarged. : 
