those received being larger and narrower than that now | 
figured and described. 
Description.—Herb with an undulately creeping horizontal rootstock about 
zy in. thick, with white naked internodes up to 3 in. long, bulbiferous at the 
nodes ; young bulbs wide ovoid, acute, over 4 in. long and nearly as thick, 
loosely or closely clothed with a few broad thick scales. Stem erect, 2}-2? ft. 
high, firm, green, below marked with longitudinal lines of bullate cells, some- 
times floccose with white hairs in the axils of the leaves and bracts, sometimes 
quite glabrous. Leaves many, scattered throughout the whole length of the 
stem, linear-oblanceolate, acute, gradually narrowed to the base, 34 in. long, 
over 1 in. wide, with 3-5 main-veins, glabrous on both surfaces and with a 
marginal line of bullate cells. Flowers terminal, solitary or aggregated in a 
loose 6-flowered umbel, very fragrant; bracts (floral leaves) verticillate, narrow 
elliptic-oblanceolate, acute, gradually narrowed to the base, about 1 in. long, 
over } in. wide, glabrous; pedicels 3-6 in. long, sometimes white-floccose, 
sometimes glabrous at the point of origin of the solitary bracteole which is 
attached near the middle of the pedicel and resembles the bracts save for being 
smaller and narrower. Perianth-segments revolute, lanceolate, the outer acute, 
the inner obtuse, over 2 in. long, nearly } in. wide, white with dark purple 
blotches in the lower half, forming at the base a green tube less than } in. 
long, finely pilose at the tip and with a nectarial groove provided with two 
papillose lines near the base on the upper surface, elsewhere glabrous. Stamens 
rather shorter than the pistil; filaments subulate, flattened near the base, about 
13 in. long, curving outwards, glabrous; anthers about } in. long, tawny. 
Ovary cylindric, over 4 in. long, } in. across, longitudinally sulcate, glabrous, 
green ; style gradually thickened upwards, curved outwards, about 1} in. long, 
glabrous, green. Capsule oblong, triangular, shortly stipitate, 1} in. long, 
nearly 1 in. wide. 
Tas. 8847.—Fig. 1, base of leaf; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, pistil; 5, fruit :—all 
enlarged except 5, which is of natural size. 
