is a Bulbinella is not really more tenable than the sug¢es- 
tion of Savatier or of Maximowicz, and there is hardly room 
for doubt that the most satisfactory course is to adopt 
Makino’s view and to consider it the type of a genus 
apart. The flowers are dimorphic, each plant bearing one 
kind only; in one group the stamens are twice as long as 
the perianth; in the other the stamens are not exserted. 
It is not improbable that this divergence may be of sexual 
significance and it has been suggested that the long-staminate 
form, here figured, may be the male. The plant from which 
our plate has been prepared was presented to Kew in 1901 
by Mr. A. K. Bulley, Ness, Neston, Cheshire. At Kew it does 
not flower freely but is quite hardy, and forms, when in flower 
in July, an elegant tuft. The treatment most suitable for it 
is that which is also suitable for hardy species of Anthericum. 
Descriprion.—/erb, perennial, with a short. thick root- 
stock ; all parts glabrous. Leaves 6-11, tufted, distichous, 
falcate-ensiform, obtuse or subacute, firm, smooth, 4-20 in. 
long, i lin. wide, articulate with the sheath, midrib hardly 
distinguishable from the remaining nerves. Scape naked, 
10-30 in. long, compressed and often narrowly winged, 
bearing a pyramidal panicle. Flowers racemosely set along 
the panicle-branches, dimorphic, some with far exserted 
stamens, others with the stamens only equalling the 
perianth-segments ; bracts narrow lanceolate, 10 lin. long ; 
bracteoles very small, cuspidate from a broad base ; pedicels 
Jointed above the middle. Perianth campanulate, pale rose ; 
segments 6, 2-seriate, shortly united at their bases ; those 
of the long-staminate flowers oblong, concave, obtuse, faintly 
keeled and l-nerved, 2} lin. long; those of the short- 
staminate flowers wide elliptic, 1} lin. long. Stamens 6; 
filaments 14 lin, long in one form, 5 lin. long on the other ; 
anthers dorsifixed, ovate, their bases cordate. Ovary 3-lobed, 
glabrous ; style in the long-staminate form longer than the 
Stamens; in the short-staminate form as long as the fila- 
ments; stigma minute; ovules 2, collateral, ascending. 
Capsule loculicidal. Seeds oblong, 3-gonous, with a basal 
tuft of long white hairs, 
Fig. 1, flowers; 2 and 3 isti ire plant 
ee emg ’ , Stamens; 4, pistil; 5, sketch of an entire piahls 
showing habit :—.d/ enlarged, except 5, wh bh is much reduced. 
