porary with the flowers, linear, obtuse, glaucous green, 
half a foot long at the flowering season, lengthening out 
afterwards. Peduncles short, one-flowered, two or three 
to a strong bulb. Spathes membranous, white, usually 
bifid. Perianth bright yellow; tube funnel-shaped, under 
half an inch long; segments of the limb oblong-spathulate, 
an inch and a half long. Stamens unequal, shorter than 
the perianth; anthers small, oblong, versatile, yellow. 
Ovary subsessile or shortly stalked; style long, simple; 
stigma capitate.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Front view of stamen ; 2, back view of stamen; 3, style and stigma: 
—All enlarged, 
