Desck. Bulb subglobose or ovoid, two or three inches in 

 diameter, the outer coats brown, membranous, truncate up- 

 wards. Leaves five or six, contemporaneous with the flowers, 

 eighteen to twenty-four inches long, half to three-quarters of 

 an inch broad, quite a line thick, in the centre glaucous- 

 green, the inner face curved, especially in the lower part, 

 the keel faint, the veins quite immersed. Scape firm, erect, 

 subterete, glaucous-green, quite naked, about equalling the 

 leaves. Spathe four- to six-leaved, the leaves about two 

 inches long, clasping tightly round the lower part of the 

 flowers, quite hiding the ovaries and short pedicels. Flowers 

 four to six, cernuous, about five inches long, the tube four 

 inches, bright scarlet, not more than two lines in diameter 

 below, expanding gradually upwards to the throat, the divi- 

 sions ovate-lanceolate, subpatent, about an inch deep, the 

 inner three narrower and more acute than the outer three, 

 all with a green keel on the outside, and with green vertical 

 marks bounding a paler central portion on the inside. Corona 

 short, with a bifid tooth between each stamen. Stamens 

 equalling, and style slightly exceeding the perianth. Capsule 

 bluntly trigonous. — J. G. B. 



Fig. 1. Tube of corolla, corona, and stamens. 2. Transverse section of 

 Ovary : — both magnified. 



