Drscr. Bulb from the size of a large nut to that of a wal- 
nut ; scales fleshy, fusiform. Stem two to three feet high, 
slender, bearing one to three whorls of four to twenty leaves 
at various heights above the ground, but always far above it. 
Leaves narrow when many, broad when few, sessile, three to six 
inches long by one half to one and a half inches broad, linear- 
or elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, 
with three to five principal nerves, dark green above, paler 
beneath ; upper leaves alternate scattered, much smaller. 
Flowers usually four to six (one to twenty), irregularly race- 
mose; peduncles two three inches long ; bracts broad, green, 
leafy. Perianth two three inches in diameter, campanulate 
at the base, orange-yellow or red, with black rounded or ob- 
long spots about the middle of the segments which are spread- 
ing and recurved with obtuse thickened points. Filaments 
much shorter than the perianth ; anthers linear, yellow. Ovary 
oblong ; style short, clavate, stigma hemispherical. “Capsule 
(according to Regel) pyriform.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ovary and style :—magnified. 
