border in March. The individual specimen was from a 

 pot plant, grown in a frame. 



Descr. — Whole plant four to six inches high. Tubers 

 small, ovoid-oblong. Leaves sessile, inserted close to- 

 gether, about four inches long, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 undulate, narrowed to the sheathing base, dark green 

 above, with paler green areolar reticulations, uniformly 

 green beneath. Scapes one or two, slender, one-fld. 

 Floivers about three inches in diameter. Perianth-segments 

 spreading and recurved, white, pale golden-yellow at the 

 base. Stamens almost included in the connivent bases of 

 the segments, filaments very short ; anthers linear, straw- 

 coloured. Ovary small, obovoid-oblong, trigonous, shorter 

 than the columnar style ; stigmas three, shortly linear, 

 revolute. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Base of perianth segment, seen from within ; 2, stamen ; 3, anther 

 — All enlarged. 



