speaking broadly, the perianth of grandiflora and the 
stamen of candida. 
The specimen of H. Bakeriana here figured was sent to — 
Kew in January and again in May of this year, in full 
flower, by Messrs. F. Sander and Co., of St. Albans, by 
whom it was introduced into cultivation. © ) 
Dzscr. Bulb ovoid, sheathed with brown scales. Leaves 
four to five, stoutly petioled ; blade ten to eighteen inches 
long by three to six inches broad, elliptic, subacute or 
acuminate, narrowed into a petiole, closely striate by many 
obscure nerves, very dark green; petiole about as long as 
the blade. Scape ten to eighteen inches high, as thick as 
a swan’s quill, slightly compressed, smooth, green ; spathes 
two, narrowly lanceolate from a broad base, two to three 
inches long; umbels four- to six-flowered; pedicels one 
half to two inches, stout, green. Flowers two and a half 
inches in diameter, pure white; tube of perianth one and 
a half inches long, slender, decurved from below the middle, 
funnel-shaped at the base of the six spreading ovate or 
oblong subaeute or obtuse segments; the inner segments 
rather the longer and more elliptic. Staminal crown free 
to the base of the segments ; of six filaments with rounded 
or retuse coherent bases, and suddenly contracted into 
subulate upper halves; anthers linear. Ovary depressed, 
intruded at the base and top, deeply three-lobed, three- 
celled ; style slender, stigma shortly 3-lobed; ovules few 
in each cell.—J. D. A, ; : 
Figs. 1 and 2, at ; i ; section of 
ovary :—all eilerge gta 3, style and stigma; 4, transverse 
