the magnificent X. ¢angitanum grows, a much larger plant, with 
darker more maroon-coloured flowers. lowering specimens 
of this latter gorgeous plant were given me at Tangiers by 
Sir J. Drummond Hay, apropos of which Miss Hay informed 
me that a similar smaller flowered kind grew in the vicinity 
of Tangiers, which most probably is X. filifolium. 
The specimen of X. filifolium here figured was brought by 
Mr. Maw from the rock of Gibraltar in 1869, and flowered 
in Benthal Gardens in July of the present year. In Gibraltar 
it flowers in April. . 
Descr. Bulb from the size of a hazel nut to a walnut, with 
a brown fibrous coat. Stem slender, one to two feet high, 
terete, leafy. eaves sometimes twice as long as the stem, 
glabrous, filiform, flexuous, convolute, keeled, dilated at the 
base into a slender sheath. Spathes two to three inches long, 
compressed, narrow lanceolate, acuminate, green, pale brown 
when dry, deeply striated, margins and tip broadly mem- 
branous. Flowers one, rarely two, of a fine violet purple, 
one and a half to two and a half inches in diameter; tube 
of perianth slender, half an inch long, enclosed in the 
spathes ; segments about twice as long as the tube; outer 
with a narrow claw, which rather suddenly expands into a re- 
flexed orbicular obovate lamina, that bears on its disk a 
golden-yellow truncate stripe bordered with blue ; inner seg- 
ments obovate-lanceolate, erose above the middle, tip notched. 
Stigmas deeply two-lobed ; lobes lanceolate, acute, erose. Cap- 
sule one to one and a half inches long, linear, trigonous, acute 
at both ends.—J/. D. H. 
