range of the thermometer in this city (Guatemala) is from 
9°.22° centigr. (48°-71° Fahr.), and in the crater of de 
Agua it is from —6° to 11° centigr. (21°-51° Fahr.). If you 
have not the plant in cultivation, I shall be happy to send 
you some bulbs. Mr. Gosling’s offer was gladly accepted, 
and in September, 1893, the plants were received at Kew, 
where they flowered in April in a cool greenhouse.” 
Deser.—Tubers very many, tufted, narrowly fusiform, 
2-3 inches long, fleshy. Stems 1-8 inches high, as thick 
as a swan’s quill or less, simple or divided, leafy at the 
tip, the leayes passing below into tubular, hyaline, striate 
pale sheaths. Leaves 2-6 by 1-} in., crowded towards 
the top of the stem, spreading and recurved, from oblong 
to linear, or narrowly oblanceolate, acuminate, ecostate — 
nerveless smooth above, and glabrous, except for 4 
few small scattered superficial tufts of white cellular 
hairs ; beneath pubescent on five or more prominent ribs ; 
sheath loose, cylindric, membranous. Flowers sessile, in 
terminal tufts amongst the leaves. Calye an inch long, 
tubular, pale green, split to about the middle, tip with 3 
very narrow teeth. Corolla pure white; tube twice as 
long as the calyx, slender, cylindric, white ; limb one and 
a half inches in diameter, 3-partite; segments orbicular, 
spreading. Stamens 6, inserted at the mouth of the 
corolla, filaments slender, about half as long as its lobes; 
anthers basitixed, horizontal, ovate-oblong, yellow, base 
cordate, slits lateral. Ovary sessile, columnar, 3-groved, 
3-celled; style filiform; stigma exserted, 3-lobed, lobes — 
ata ag ovules few in each cell, biseriately superpose? 
Fig. 1, Epidermis of leaves with tufts of hairs; 2, hairs from the same+ — 
3, tip of calyx; 4, stamen; 5, sti . ith one cé 
exposed :— AI enlarged. s & sHlemas 6 oatys. % the camel 
