as being conspicuous for the number of Baobab trees 
growing upon it. The bulb was presented by Mrs. Lugard 
to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1899, where it flowered 
in a tropical house. 
Descr.— Bulb four inches in diameter, ovoid. Leaves 
twelve to fifteen, distichous, lorate, two feet long by two 
inches broad, glaucous ; rather fleshy, brittle, tip rounded ; 
margins narrowly scarious, erose. Peduncle short, flat- 
tened, an inch broad. Spathes two, deltoid, acuminate, 
two to three inches long. Umbels hemispheric, laxly very 
many-flowered, nearly two feet in diameter; pedicels 
half to one inch long. Perianth-tube three inches long, 
very slender, cylindric, nearly straight, pale red ; segments 
of limb spreading and revolute, two and a half inches long 
by one-sixth of an inch broad, lorate, obtuse, bright red. 
Filaments about as long as the segments of the limb, red, 
very slender; anthers one-sixth of an inch long, brown. 
Style as long as the filaments, very slender, red; stigma 
capitellate.—J. D. H. 
Tab. 7777, umbel with top of peduncle and spathe of nat. size. 
Tab. 7778, reduced view if whole plant ; fig. 1, portion of margin of leaf; 2and 
3, anthers; 4, top of style and stigma :—all enlarged. 
