Dzscr. Bulb large, globose. Stem erect, cernuous at 
the apex, six or seven feet long, green throughout. Leaves 
numerous, scattered, spreading, linear, bright green, the 
lower three or four inches long, the upper growing gradu- 
ally shorter, and many of them producing bulbille in their 
axils. lowers usually two or three, pendent on long 
peduncles, fragrant, sulphur-yellow, tinged outside with 
claret-red. Perianth funnel-shaped, seven or eight inches 
long, the oblanceolate-oblong segments permanently con- 
nivent in the lower two-thirds, recurving in the upper 
third; outer segments but little over an inch broad ; inner 
nearly two inches broad. Stamens an inch and a half 
shorter than the perianth-segments; anthers above 
an inch long, with red-brown pollen. Style much over- 
topping the anthers, curved at the apex ; stigmas large.— 
J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Front view of an anther ; 2, back view of an anther; 3, pistil :— 
all life-size. 
