is it falls far short of the magnificence which the plant 
attains, for Mr. Thompson of Ipswich informs me that 
it flowers with him in an open border much more 
luxuriantly than in a house, one specimen having two 
scapes with nine and ten leaves, and twelve to thirteen 
flowers respectively, and that it withstood the cold of last 
winter (1895) without the slightest protection. 
Descr.—Rootstock stout, lobed. Stem very short, simple, 
or very sparingly branched. Leaves few, radical, twelve 
to eighteen inches long, pinnate; rachis stout, nearly 
terete; leaflets six to eight rather distant pairs or 
fewer, four to five inches long, sessile, subopposite, lan- 
ceolate, subacute, spreading and decurved, unequal-sided, 
coarsely unequally crenate or lobulate, midrib strong, 
lower margin, sometimes slightly decurrent, terminal 
more or less confluent; petiole as long as the blade. 
Scape as long as the leaves or longer, erect; as thick as a 
goose-quill, naked, three- to thirteen-fid. ; bracts small, 
lanceolate; pedicels half an inch long. Caiye an inch 
long, tubular-campanulate, green, five-angled and -lobed, 
puberulous ; lobes shorter than the tube, ovate-lanceolate, — 
acuminate. Corolla bright rose-red; tube three inches — 
long, decurved, glabrous within, base within the calyx 
cylindric, above it slightly inflated; limb three to three 
and a half inches broad, lobes rounded, margins undulate, 
recurved. Stamens included, filaments glabrous ; anthers 
glabrous, cells divaricate, dorsally spurred. Disk cupular. 
Ovary cylindric; style included, stigma large, peltate. 
Capsule one and a half to two inches long, tetragonous, 
valves corrugated. Seeds flattened, broadly obovate, 
winged, rugose.—J. D. H. ) a 
Fig. 1, Portion of calyx laid open, showin the di | : 
corolla laid open with stamens ; 3 ane 4, anthers hd miaigea 2 — 
