The prolonged interval between the first and second 
flowering of this plant at Colesborne testifies to the diffi- 
culty experienced in providing suitable conditions. This 
difficulty, Mr. Elwes points out, it shares with antipodean 
bulbs generally, and resides in their unwillingness to 
change their season of growth. The beautiful terrestrial 
orchids secured by Mr. Elwes during the journey of 
1902 it has been impossible to preserve, and even in 
those instances in which species like Tecophilaea cyano- 
crocus, LTippeastrum pratense, Alstromeria Hookeri have 
survived, it has been necessary to afford frame protection. 
Even when raised from seed ripened in this country the 
plants of Alstromeria do not readily change their season, 
but continue in growth throughout the winter. Doubt- 
less it is largely owing to this intractability that com- 
paratively few of the beautiful bulbous plants from the 
Andes of Chile and Northern Patagonia are to be found 
in English gardens, and it would be well if those who 
have correspondents resident there could induce these to 
send plants or seeds to this country and to repeat their 
introductions from time to time until the difficulty to 
which Mr. Elwes refers has been at last overcome. 
Description.—Iler}, bulbous at the base. Leaves 
contemporaneous with the flowers, linear, acuminate, 
concave, about 10 in. long, } in. wide. Pedunele cylin- 
dric, + in. thick, 2-flowered ; Spathes 2, herbaceous, 
oblong, concave, acute, 2! in. Jong, 1 in. broad ; pedicels 
about 4 in. long, rather stout.  Perianth pale yellow, 
tube claret-coloured within; tube funnel-shaped, over 
3 in. long, } in. wide at the base, with a series of short 
transverse scales within above the point of attachment 
of the filaments; lobes at length somewhat spreading, 
elliptic, subacute, 12 in. long, ¢in. wide. Stamens half the 
length of the perianth. Ovary oblong, 3 in. long, under 
3 in. wide, subcylindric ; style twice as long as the 
stamens, stigmatic arms short. 
Fig. 1, base of one segment of the perianth, showing transverse scale and 
stamen ; 2, pistil :— both enlarged, 
