from a specimen which he flowered at Cirencester, in March 

 of this present year. That in the Gartenflora 'has been 

 coloured from a plant in which the purple of the outside of 

 the perianth has not been properly developed. 



Desck. Bulb globose, an inch or more in diameter, solid in 

 the lower part, furnished at the top with a few membranous 

 scales, that enwrap the base of the stem, emitting from its 

 base filiform stolons. Stem a foot or more long, glaucous, 

 terete. Leaves below the inflorescence five or six, all except 

 the lowest opposite or subopposite, sessile, oblong, obtuse, 

 four or five inches long, pale green when mature, rather glau- 

 cous when young. Flowers four to twelve, cernuous on 

 pedicels a quarter or half an inch long, forming a lax raceme, 

 which occupies about half of the stem, each bracteated by 

 a large green leaf, the upper ones smaller and abortive. 

 Perianth about an inch long, funnel-shaped, lurid-purple with 

 a glaucous tint outside, greenish -yellow within, not at all 

 tessellated ; segments subequal, oblanceolate-oblong, subacute, 

 with a raised keel outside down the lower half which is more 

 strongly marked in the outer three and a yellow-green linear 

 nectary at the top of the claw, inside. Stamens nearly as 

 long as the perianth-segments; filaments filiform, glabrous; 

 anthers oblong, basifixed, purplish. Ovary oblong-trigonous ; 

 style entire, reaching to the top of the anthers; stigma capi- 

 tate. Capsule obtusely angled.— J. G. Baker. 



n J? g ' ll t se S me J ltof the perianth, seen from the inside, showing its foveole or 

 nectary; % a single stamen; 3, the w^^all magnified. 



