obsolete bulbs coutinuc, like those of Tritonia lineata, for 

 many years without decaying, and form a chain on one side 

 of the new bulb. The leaves are about two feet, or two and 

 a half high, the flowers surmounting them. The flowers are 

 durable, the spike lasting, from the beginning to the end of 

 its flowering, about a month." 



