__ Bulbs of the specimen here figured were received at the 
Royal Gardens in 1898 from Monte Video. They were 
_ forwarded by Mr. C. B. Cantara, with the compliments of 
Professor Arechavaleta, and flowered ina warm greenhouse 
in May, 1899. 
Descr.—Bulb about two inches in diameter, globose ; 
scales dark brown; neck scarcely any. Leaves about six, 
afoot and a half long by one and a half to two inches 
broad, linear, but rather narrowed below, tip rounded, 
bright green above, with narrow, white margins, paler 
beneath, with a broad, low thickened costa towards the 
tip. Scape two feet high, stout, cylindric, dull glaucous 
green, three- or four-flowered. Pedicels sub-erect, stout, 
green, an inch to an inch and a half long. Bracts two, 
oblong-lanceolate, membranous, pale brown. Ovary short, 
green. Perianth four inches long, narrowly funnel-shaped ; 
tube green; lobes oblong, sub-acute, spreading and re- 
curved, pure white, with irregularly placed broad blood- 
red streaks below the middle. Stamens sub-declinate, 
much shorter than the perianth; anthers large, a third 
of an inch long, golden-yellow. Style much longer than 
the stamens, declinate ; stigmas three, linear, recurved.— 
#.D.H, 
Fig. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, top of style and stigmas; al/ enlarged; 4, view 
of whole plant reduced. 
