made use of the same terms to designate the various series 
of sheaths of the lower leaves and scape, which terms, as 
used by Herbert, are anything but intelligible. Herbert 
further alters Sieberi of Gay into Sieberianus, in accordance 
with his own views of specific nomenclature. Bory figures 
the three stigmas as of unequal length and slightly lobed, 
which is not the case in our specimens. 
Duscr. Corm the size of a hazel-nut, clothed with a stout 
longitudinally reticulate brown tunic (not well represented in 
the plate). Leaves four to seven, rather broad, produced with 
the flowers, shorter than the flowering scape, nerves very faint, 
midrib stout. Perianth without an involucre (involucrate 
according to Klatt); tube slender, pale ; throat golden yel- 
low; limb two to two and a half inches in diameter, segments 
elliptic-oblong, obtuse, pale or dark violet-blue, or white with 
pale violet-blue streaks. Filaments shorter than the linear 
golden anthers. Stigmas deep orange yellow, quite entire, 
exceeding the stamens. “ Capsule naked, purple towards the 
top. Seeds small, subangled, glabrous, pale brown.”  Her- 
bert—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reticulated fibres of the tunic; 2 and 3, stigmas :—both magnijied. 
