Jules Carmiol and was first flowered, in 1867, by the late 
Mr. Wilson Saunders. It has flowered since then with 
Mr. J. O’Brien, Harrow-on-the-Hill, with Mr. A. Worsley, 
Isleworth, with Mr. W. E. Ledger, Wimbledon, and possibly 
elsewhere. The plant from which our figure has been pre- 
pared flowered in March, 1910, with Mr. W. E. Gumbleton, 
to whose garden at Belgrove, Queenstown, the bulb had 
been sent two years previously from that of Mr. Ledger, 
who, while failing with the other species, has, he informs 
us, once flowered the Ecuadorean P. viridiflora, Baker, and 
has found it comparatively easy to flower P. Carmioli. 
The plant thrives wel! in a cool stove, and with care may 
succeed in an ordinary heated greenhouse ; it is not fasti- 
dious as to soil, and grows satisfactorily in a mixture of 
peat or leaf mould and yellow loam, to which sand should be 
added. It is deciduous and requires complete rest after the 
leaves die down. The tall flower stalk precedes the leaves, 
which, however, develop while the plant is in flower. 
Descriprion.— Herb ; bulb nearly globose, 2-3 in. wide, 
abruptly narrowed to a short neck and clothed with brown 
membranous sheaths. Leaves 1-3, appearing during flower- 
ing time, oblanceolate, obtuse, 14 in. long, about 2 in. wide, 
glabrous, glaucous, membranous, with a pronounced midrib 
and about 20 slender veins on each side; petiole 8 in. 
long, channelled above. Scape erect, 2 ft. high, cylindric ; 
spathes 6, narrow lanceolate, membranous; umbel 5—10- 
flowered ; pedicels slender, 3-3 in. long. Perianth narrowly 
funnel-shaped, 14 in. long, the lower two-thirds scarlet, the 
upper third green with yellow margins; tube 5 lin. long ; 
lobes oblanceolate, with rather blunt thickened tips, with 
membranous margins lower down. Stamens attached near 
the top of the tube; filaments shortly protruded ; anthers 
elliptic, dorsifixed, 1$ lin. long. Ovary elliptic, green, 5 lin. 
long; style filiform, longer than the stamens; stigma 
minute, oP 
Fig. 1, corolla in vertical section, showing ovary, style, and stamens; 2 and 
3, anthers ; 4, apex of style and stigma :-—al/ enlarged. 
