3ulb about the fize of a nutmeg, ovate. Leaf folitary, from 

 eight inches to a foot in length, narrow-lorate, concave, ftriated 

 without, far-fheathing, caudately terminated by a long com- 

 preffedly round ftri£t cufpis, recurved. Scape fhorter than 

 leaf, roundifh, thickened upwards ; flowers white, three to five, 

 feflile, fpiked; braftes membranous, broad-cymbiform, pointed, 

 reaching half-way up the flower or further, keel green ; corolla 

 patent, fegments oblong, fomewhat tranfparently ftreaked, inner 

 ones rather the broadeft and lefs expanded ; organs about one- 

 third fhorter than the fegments which are nearly equal ; fila- 

 ments flat, fubulate-linear, equal ; fly le fetaceous, longer than 

 germen; ftigma fimple, pubefcent ; gcrmen fubllipitate, obovate- 

 oblong, three-lobedly angular, angles furrowed. ByCi.usius 

 and others it is defcribed as fweet-fcented, by Brotero as 

 fcentlefs, and fo it feemed to us. Should be kept in a garden- 

 frame during winter. 



The root was brought from Portugal by Sir Thomas 

 Gage, who has kindly propofed to affift us in procuring the 

 rarer plants of this order and the Enfatae indigenous of that 

 country, all which are now nearly loft to our gardens. G. 



