nificent “Hortus Scheenbrunensis.” The specimen here figured 
flowered in the Royal Gardens, in May, 1868. Viessceuwia 
Jugazx (Tab. nost. 5438), also introduced by Mr. W. Saunders, 
is another species of Morea (M. edulis, Gawl.) 
Descr. Bulbs the size of a walnut; surrounded with innu- 
merable bulbils, giving off numerous rigid rootlets that bear 
stiff horizontal fibrils. Stem rigid, one to three feet high, 
angled, glabrous, repeatedly forked, flexuous, leafy. Leaves 
often bulbiferous in the axils, distichous, longer than the 
stems, ensiform, six to twelve inches long, one-third to two- 
thirds inch broad, striated, green, slightly rough or toothed 
on the keel and margins. Spathes convolute, acuminate, ap- 
pressed. Flowers peduncled, two inches diameter, golden 
yellow; pedicels 3-gonous, glabrous. Perianth-segments 
subsimilar, oblong, obtuse, slightly reflexed, the three outer 
speckled at the base. Anthers purple; pollen yellow. Stigmas 
2-fid; segments lanceolate, acute, toothed.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Outer segment of the perianth ; 2, ovary, stigmas and stamens—all 
magnified, 
