p. 107, a species with which we are not acquainted. With us it 
blossoms in the stove in the winter months, and the truly noble 
pure white flowers, the large staminal cup slightly suffused with 
pale yellow-green, are highly fragrant. Inhabits the Province of 
Choco, New Granada. It is impossible not to see a very close 
analogy between Linden and Planchon’s genus Hwcharis and 
Kurycles of Salisbury (in our Tab. 3399); the true nature of 
the bulbs, leaves, and flowers are the same. ‘The latter genus 
is exclusively a native of the warm parts of the Old World, 
whilst our plant is peculiar to the New. 
Drscr. Leaves rising from a rather large tunicated bulb. 
Petioles from five to seven inches long, semiterete, plane or 
slightly grooved above: the d/ade about equal in length to the 
petiole, or longer, ovate, shortly acuminate, striated, dark green 
above, paler beneath. Scape a foot or more high, bearing about 
six or seven large white fragrant flowers, which emerge from a 
bifid membranaceous spatha. Peduncles very short, with subu- 
late dracteas at their base. Perianth hypocrateriform: the tube 
curved, narrow for its greater length, expanding upwards, three 
inches long, including the oblong, green, subtrigonal ovary. 
Limb of six, horizontal, acute or subapiculate segments: three 
outer exactly ovate; three inner cordiform-ovate. Staminiferous 
cup large, white, tinged with green, six-lobed at the margin, 
each lobe bifid, with its obtuse lobules subdivergent, and bearing 
a stamen in the centre. lament short, subulate, erect: anther 
linear, versatile. Ovary oval, trigonous, three-celled, with fourteen 
to sixteen ovules, in two rows. Style longer than the stamen: 
stigma three-lobed. 
Fig. 1. Transverse section of the ovary, with ovules :—magnifted. 
