County Cork. Our plate was drawn from a plant grown 
by Professor M. Foster, at Shelford, near Cambridge, last 
summer. 
Descr. Radical fibres numerous, cylindrical, fleshy. Leaves 
in a dense basal rosette, ensiform, glabrous, furnished with 
a narrow cartilaginous border, about two feet in length, 
one to two inches broad at the middle, pale green, weak 
in texture. Scape terete, erect, hollow, two or three 
feet long, half or three-quarters of an inch in diameter. 
Raceme erect, moderately dense, two or three feet long, 
four or five inches in diameter when expanded; pedicels 
solitary, erecto-patent, an inch or an inch and a half long, 
articulated at the apex; bracts linear, membranous, much 
shorter than the pedicels. Perianth campanulate, rotate 
when fully expanded; segments oblong, bright pink, three- 
quarters of an inch long, with a distinct one-nerved reddish- 
brown keel. Filaments filiform, just as long as the perianth ; 
anthers linear-oblong, red before they open; pollen bright 
yellow. Ovary sessile, globose; style as long as the fila- 
ments, slender, deflexed. Capsule globose, smooth, the 
size of a cherry.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Stamens and pistil ; 2, front view of an anther ; 3, back view of an anther; 
4, horizontal section of ovary :—all more or less enlarged ; 5, unripe capsule, life 
size. 
