upper ones linear. Peduncle glabrous, erect, six or nino © 
inches long. Bud slightly nodding. Flower faintly scented, 
campanulate, two or two and a half inches long in the 
cultivated plant; all the segments oblong and acute, an — 
inch or more broad at the middle, the three outer, when | 
the flower expands, spreading away from the three inner. 
Segments in the typical red-flowered form, as figured, with 
a faint yellow-black blotch filling up the whole claw. 
Stamens about an inch long, the glabrous filament often 
shorter than the linear anther. Ovary large, stout, with 
three large much-crisped stigmas.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Bulb; 2 and 3, bates of perianth segments :—all of the natural size ; 
4, stamen, and 5, ovary :—both enlarged. 
