and as amenable to cultivation as LD. canadense and 
superbum. : 
Dzscr. Bulbs small, globose, annual, arising from a 
wide-creeping perennial rootstock; scales small, thick, 
ovate. Stem slender, erect, glabrous, two or three feet 
long. Leaves typically, in about four whorls each of 
four to eight leaves, which are sessile, oblong-lanceolate, 
bright green, glabrous, two or three inches long and 
spread horizontally. Flowers, one, two or three, long- 
stalked, horizontal or rather drooping, red or tinged with 
yellow towards the base, especially inside. Perianth, 
openly funnel-shaped, two or three inches long; segments 
oblong-spathulate, spotted more or less copiously with 
claret-red inside, narrowed suddenly at the apex to a small 
cusp, spreading very little when fully expanded. Stamens 
half an inch shorter than the perianth ; filaments flattened ; 
anthers oblong. Ovary oblong ; green, half an inch long ; 
style as long as the ovary, thickened gradually upwards ; 
stigmatose apex faintly three-lobed.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Back view of an 
ther ; 2, i 5 er ee 
less enlarged, r front view of anther; 3, pistil :—all more or 
