glabrous, denticulate at the margin. Scape issuing from 
the top of the bulb below the column of leaves, spreading 
about a foot long, above an inch thick, very much flattened. 
Flowers pinkish, fragrant, arranged forty or fifty in a dense 
centripetal umbel ; pedicels sometimes above an inch long; 
spathe-valves lanceolate-deltoid ; bracteoles linear-subulate, 
membranous. Perianth with a cylindrical tube three inches 
long; segments of the limb spreading horizontally, linear, — 
rather shorter than the tube, channelled down the face. 
Stamens a little shorter than the perianth-segments; anthers 
small, linear-oblong, versatile. Style reaching to the tip 
of the stamens; stigma capitate ——J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Whole plant, much reduced in size ; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, apex of style 
with stigma, enlarged. 
