one-seeded. The black, rugose seeds closely resemble 

 those of A. Karataviense. 



A. Ellisii flowered in July, 1900, and again in 1902 in 

 the garden of the Hou. Charles Ellis, of Frensham Hall, 

 Haslemere, who informs me that the bulb came from a 

 collector sent out for him from Meshed, by the late Mr. 

 Ney Elias. 



Descr. — Bulb globose. Leaves four to five, basal, a foot 

 long by two and a half inches broad, spreading and revo- 

 lute, linear-oblong, acute, nearly flat, glaucous green. 

 Scape a foot high, very stout, two-thirds of an inch in 

 diameter, green, bearing a depressed-globose compact 

 head of bright rose-coloured flowers five inches iu 

 diameter. Spathes an inch and a half long, deltoidly 

 ovate, acuminate, membranous. Pedicels nearly equal in 

 length, about an inch and a half long. Perianth-segments 

 widely spreading, half an inch long or more, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, white towards the base, stiff and erect in 

 fruit. Stamens one-third shorter than the perianth ; fila- 

 ments red, swollen and sub-globose at the base; anthers 

 linear-oblong, brownish blue. Capsule very small, nob 

 half the length of the perianth-segments ; depressed- 

 globose ; cells one-seeded. Seeds black, rugose.—/. D. H. 



Fig. 1, stamen and pistil; 2, pistil; 3, fruiting perianth; 4 and 5, seeds ; 

 all except 3 and 4, enlarged. 



