station, which he has distributed with his customary liber- 
ality. 
Seat. Bulb ovoid, middle-sized for the genus (about an 
inch in diameter) with several brown membranous tunics 
which are glabrous internally. Stem one-headed, about a 
foot long in the cultivated plant, glaucous, terete, obscurely 
downy. Leaves three or four, crowded near the middle of 
the stem, glabrous, glaucous, with a hyaline obscurely ciliated 
border, the lower one lanceolate, acuminate, six or eight 
inches long, an inch to an inch and a quarter broad near the 
base, much undulated, deeply channelled down the face, the 
upper oneslinear, scarcely at all undulated. Pedunele four 
or five inches long. Perianth campanulate, erect, two inches 
long, all the six segments uniform in shape, oblong-lanceo- 
late, narrowed from the middle to a long point, bright red on 
* the face, the claw furnished with an oblanceolate-oblong’ 
black blotch bordered with yellow, which is half an inch 
long. Filaments black, linear, glabrous, three-eighths of an 
inch long; anthers black, oblong, rather shorter than the 
filaments; pollen yellow. Ovary clavate, green, half an 
inch long ; stigmas an eighth of an inch broad.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Pistil :—magnified. 
