Descr. Bulbs globose, connected by a long thread-like 
rhizome. (A detailed account of their organization will be 
found in the paper in the Gardener’s Chronicle above cited.) 
Stems slender, erect, three or four feet long including the 
inflorescence, which reaches almost half-way down. Leaves 
about four in a distichous rosette at the base of the stem, 
linear, green, moderately firm in texture, a foot or a foot 
and a half long. Peduncle furnished with two or three 
leaves, similar to the others, but smaller. Panicle a foot or 
a foot and a half long, composed of three to five ascending 
branches, bearing twelve to twenty flowers each; spathe of 
two small membranous valves, the outer lanceolate, the 
inner oblong, entire or obscurely emarginate at the tip. 
Perianth infundibuliform, bright deep yellow, more or less 
‘flushed on the outside with red, about an inch long, the 
oblong segments half as long as the tube. Stamens con- 
tiguous, inserted half-way up the perianth-tube, with anther 
and filament of about equal length. Style with three short 
cuneate branches. Capsule ovoid, obtusely angled, many- 
seeded.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, A flower cut open, life-size; 2, vertical section of ovary; enlarged ; 
3, capsule, life-size, 
