Bulbs of Haylockia were received at the Royal Gardens, 
Kew, from Dr. Cantera of Montevideo, in 1898; these 
flowered in July, 1899, and threw up leaves in the following 
August. The flowers appear in quick succession for about 
a fortnight, but are very ephemeral. 
Descr.—A dwarf, perfectly glabrous, bulbous herb. 
Bulb globose, scales brown, appressed. Leaves few, pro- 
duced after the flowers, very narrowly linear, sub-acute, — 
flaccid, green, concave above. Flowers solitary, sub-sessile, 
erect, white, pale rose-coloured or primrose-yellow, streaked 
with pink at the base of the perianth-lobes externally. 
Perianth-tube very slender, an inch and a half long, 
surrounded at the base by a bifid spathe, limb infundibular- 
campanulate, six-partite; segments oblong, spreading and 
recurved. Filaments short, subulate, inserted in the 
throat of the perianth; anthers versatile, linear-oblong, 
golden-yellow. Ovary embraced by the spathe and sheaths 
of the leaves; style filiform, stigmas three, linear, obtuse, 
shortly exserted from the throat of the perianth. Capsule 
small, trigonous, three-valved. Seeds black, dorsally | 
convex.—J. D. H. 
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Fig. 1, Three perianth segments and stamens; 2, stigmas Both enlarged, = 
