Genus: nor are included stamens prevalent in the other 
species. Our plant flowered in the greenhouse of the 
Glasgow Botanic Garden, September, 1834. 
Descr. The bulb is described as “‘ compressedly conical, 
the laminz bifariously imbricated, inner ones longest.’ 
Leaves two, arising from the summit of the root, broadly 
elliptical, obtuse, nerved, very hairy, with the hairs point- 
ing downwards, striated : in our specimen the leaves were 
almost fully formed, while the flowers were in perfection. 
Scape on the outside of one of the leaves, longer than they, 
terete, hairy. Spatha of three or four membranaceous, re- 
flexed leaves, greenish, tinged with purple. Umbel of many 
flowers, lax. Corolla pale rose-coloured : tube short ; limb 
erecto-patent. Stamens included, three shorter and three 
longer ones. Germen inferior, almost globose. 
| Fig. 1. Flower, with the Limb of the Corolla removed : magnified. 
