of 1882, which came from the collection of the late G. C. 
Joad, Esq., of Wimbledon. 
Descr. Bulb ovoid, about an inch in diameter, with many 
dark-brown membranous tunics. Basal leaves two or three, 
not distichous, sheathing the stem at the base, then pro- 
duced into a linear plicate glabrous lamina half a foot or a 
foot long, of moderately firm texture. Stem slender, terete, 
a foot or more long, with two, three, or four ascending 
branches, each ending in a spathe and bracteated at the 
base by a reduced leaf. Spathe of two lanceolate valves 
above an inch long, green and moderately firm in texture, 
membranous at the tips. Flowers two in a cluster, with 
pedicels as long as the spathe. Ovary small, turbinate ; 
perianth-limb slit down to the base into six similar oblong 
azure-blue spreading segments about an inch long. Stamens 
three, erect, with very short filaments, the bright-yellow 
erect linear anthers soon curling up after the flower is 
expanded. Branches of the style spreading horizontally, 
not more than half as long as the anthers, fruit a small 
coriaceous loculicidal capsule, with several subglobose seeds 
in each cell.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Stamens and styles ; 2, front view of a stamen ; 3, back view of astamen; 
4, style, with its six spreading forks :—all more or less enlarged. 
