Kew plant were not developed till three months after the 
flowers. With regard to the style, which Herbert describes 
as purplish, with a shortly lobed white stigma, it differs 
from that of the plant here figured, though agreeing in the 
more important character of the remarkable shortness of that 
organ, which is perhaps imperfect. 
Drscr. Bulb as large as the fist, nearly globose, crown 
short, conic, straw-coloured. eaves produced long after the 
flowers, erect, then recurved, one and a half to two feet long, 
three to three and a half inches broad, linear-oblong, or very 
broadly strap-shaped, obtuse, concave, not furrowed keeled 
or margined, bright green, quite glabrous and smooth. 
Scape eight to twelve inches high, hardly compressed, 15- to 
20-flowered. Spathes green, reddish at the tips; bracts 
subulate or filiform. Mowers subsessile, drooping, pure white, 
fragrant. Ovary half an inch long, slender. Perianth-tube 
one to one and a half inches long, curved, slender, white ; limb 
two and a half to three inches in diameter ; segments spread- 
ing, but not widely, equal, elliptic-oblong, apiculate, one and 
a half inch long, by three quarters of an inch broad. Stamens 
very shortly exserted ; anthers linear, yellow, one third of an 
inch long, twice as long as the subulate, white filaments. 
ane ay slender, included; stigma shortly 3-lobed.— 
Fig. 1, Tube of perianth, ovary, and stamens :—magnified, 
