Descr. Bulb ovoid, with thick brown membranous tunics. 
Stem terete, about a foot long, bearing three or four distantly 
superposed leaves and a single terminal head of flowers. 
Leaves sessile, linear, acuminate, four to six inches long, a 
quarter to half an inch broad at the middle, moderately firm 
in texture, bright green, strongly plicate, glabrous. Spathe one 
and a half to two inches long, two- to four-flowered, the flowers 
opening in succession on different days; valves lanceolate, the 
two outer ones green, the inner ones pale and membranous. 
Pedicels as long as the spathe. Ovary oblong, one-quarter to 
one-third inch long. Perzanth yellow, very fugitive, measuring 
an inch and a half across when expanded, the broad claws of 
the segments forming a permanent cup and dotted with brown, 
those of the inner three suddenly narrowed just above the 
base and furnished with a transverse glittering crystalline 
band at the throat of the claw; blade of the segments 
spreading from the top of the cup when the flower is ex- 
panded, roundish, with a minute cusp, the three inner much 
smaller than the three outer. Filaments united to the top in 
a cylindrical column as long as the cup formed by the claws 
of the perianth-segments; anthers ligulate, erecto-patent. 
Style-arms cut down nearly to the base into two hooked forks, 
ee: are stigmatose in a cushion at the very tip.—J. G. 
aker. 
Fig. 1, One of the outer segments of the perianth; fig. 2, one of the inner 
segments ; fig. 3, pistil and stamens complete; fig. 4, column of stamens, with 
the anthers cut off so as to show the style-arms :—all magnified. 
