living plant, and for the flowering specimens from which 
our drawing was made. ; 
Descr. Bulb, in the only specimen I have seen, sending 
out a slender rhizome. Stem slender, erect, terete, two 
or three feet long, with leaves scattered up to the in- 
florescence, but only distant and rudimentary in the lower 
third. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, sessile, alternate, 
reaching a length of four or six inches, tapering gradually 
from the middle to both ends, firm in texture for the 
genus, bright green and glossy above, with two vertical 
nerves on each side of the midrib. Flowers one to five, 
racemose or corymbose, with the foliaceous bracts some- 
times congested into a whorl; pedicels ascending, cernu- 
ous. Perianth four or five inches long, greenish-yellow 
outside, yellow within, flushed, except in the upper third, 
with purplish-black; segments oblanceolate-oblong, acute, 
narrowed gradually from above the middle to the base 
and point, reflexing when the flower is fully expanded only 
in the upper half or third. Stamens above an inch shorter 
than the perianth-segments; filaments filiform, purplish- 
black; anthers nearly an inch long. Ovary cylindrical ; 
style overtopping the stamens; stigma capitate—J. G. 
Baker. 
Fig. 1, Back view of anther; 2, front view of anther; 3, pistil com- 
plete :—all enlarged. 
