some drooping flowers, enclosed in a large, two-leaved, mem- 
branaceous, striated, green spatha, with a pale border, and 
having two or three linear-oblong, membranaceous brac- 
teas. Pedicels short. Perianth orange-coloured, with a 
reddish tinge. Tube very long, enlarged above the middle. 
Limb cawpanulate, of five ovate segments, the three outer 
ones rather larger, more acute, and terminated with a fleshy 
mucro, all of them tipped with a green spot. Staminal 
crown a short, fleshy tube, inserted at the base of the limb, 
six-cleft, each segment truncated, bidentate, green at the 
extremity. In the sinuses of these segments the stamens 
are inserted. Ftlaments rather shorter than the limb of the 
perianth, erect. Anthers oblong, dorsally inserted, pur- 
plish-brown ; Pollen deep yellow. Germen broadly ovate, 
obtusely trigonal, three-celled, the cells containing many 
oblong ovules fixed to the central axis, and arranged in 
two rows, Style longer than the stamens ; Stigma obtuse, 
slightly inclined. 
Obligingly communicated by Mr. Wiis from the fine 
collection of Joun Wittmore, Esq. at Oldfield, near Bir- 
mingham, in December, 1831, its usual season of flowering, 
with the observation, that the bulbs were purchased four 
years previously at Liverpool, and first cultivated by him at 
Oldfield, whence he has distributed it to Spofforth and other 
collections, and that a temperature of 45° seems most {a- 
vourable to its blossoming in perfection. 3 
oun native country is probably some part of South Ame- 
Fig. 1. Stami 
versely : Seirasiod Crown. 2. Germen. 3. The same cut through trans- 
