scabrid. Scape one foot to one and a-half feet high, very 
slender, cylindric, with few subulate lanceolate sessile bracts. 
Flowers three to five, subumbellate, nearly horizontal. Pe- 
dicels one inch and a-half to two inches long, green below, 
yellow above, bracts much shorter than the pedicels, subulate, 
green. Perianth one inch and a-half long, and nearly as 
broad at the mouth, campanulate, slightly contracted above 
the base, bright golden yellow ; segments nearly half orbicular, 
obtuse, obscurely three-nerved, bluntly apiculate, the three 
outer tipped with a green spot. Stamens yellow. Ovary 
green, very slender, elongating, and much exceeding the 
perianth long before maturity —/. D. H. 
