flowering in April. He sent bulbs to Kew, which flowered 
in September of the present year. The name is derived from 
svptyywene, fistular, in allusion to the slender perianth-tube. 
Descr. Bulbs ovoid, the size of a hazel-nut; scales 
- appressed, brown, smooth, not reticulated. Leaves capillary, 
spreading, green, two to three inches long, terete, with a 
slight groove in front, enclosed at the base in white mem- 
branous sheaths one inch long, with a few ragged brown 
ones outside. Spathes 2, hyaline, oblong and conduplicate 
below, subulate-lanceolate above, about one-third the length 
of the perianth-tube. Mowers solitary, the base of the 
perianth-tube and ovary immersed in the sheaths, very 
shortly pedicelled. Perianth salver-shaped ; tube two inches 
long, very slender, terete, not swollen upwards, pale purple ; 
limb one inch in diameter, lobes connate-spathulate, 2-lobed, 
incurved, dark purple outside, with white edges, lilac within. 
Stamens 3, inserted at the mouth of the perianth ; filaments 
five, very short, subulate ; anthers yellow linear-subulate from 
a sagittate base obtuse at the tip. Ovary one quarter inch 
long, narrowly obovoid, 3-celled ; style very long, capillary, 
exserted, divided at the summit into three revolute linear 
entire stigmas; ovules numerous, 2-seriate in each cell. 
Fruit unknown.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Section of apex of leaf; 2, flower, with the perianth segments re- 
moved; 3, ovary, style, and stigma; 4, transverse, section of ovary :—all 
magnified, 
