I procured bulbs in March, 1889, which were kindly- 

 forwarded to Kew by Mr. Clias. Ford of the Hong-Kong 

 Botanic Gardens." 



It was from one of these bulbs, which flowered at Kew 

 for the first time in August, 1889, that our drawing was 

 made. 



Descb. Bulb large, globose; scales oblong, fleshy, the 

 o iter two or three inches long by an inch broad. Stem 

 three feet long below the inflorescence, bearing about thirty 

 sessile leaves without any bulbillas in their axils. Lower 

 leaves lanceolate, reaching a length of six or eight inches ; 

 upper growing gradually smaller; uppermost ovate, not 

 above an inch long. Flowers few, arranged in a lax corymb 

 with long simple or forked branches. Perianth bright yellow, 

 two or three inches long ; segments lanceolate, reflexing 

 when expanded from near the base, furnished with numerous 

 minute red-brown spots and towards the base with a green 

 keel and a few large clavate bright yellow papilla?. 

 Stamens equally arcuate, nearly as long as the perianth 

 segments; anthers linear; pollen dark orange. Style 

 arcuate, shorter than the stamens. Capsule oblong, pro- 

 minently six-sulcate.— J. G. Baker. 



J&i*' Anther,fr ° ntvieff; 2 ' anther > b *<* view; 3, pistil complete:-*" 



