14 Calyx-lobes lorit^er than the netals which are cilia te at 

 the basal part v/ith a fev; minute or short, straight 

 hairs, often scarcely visible to the naked eye. 11 



9. Petals cilia te at the be sal peri' v;ith long and conspi- 

 cuous flexuose heirs; corolla 4-5 inches in diameter, 

 expanding in the morning; tuber irregularly ovoid, 

 "sometimes as large as the egg of a goose." elongata. 



Petals ciliate at the basal part v/ith short or minute 



straight hairs. 10 



10, Rootstoclc a deformed or irregularly fusiform tuber 3-4 



inches long; corolla about .5 inches in diemeter and rep- 

 resented vdth lax petals, affinis, 



Rootstock a cylindric or radish-like tuber 6-18 inches 

 long; corolla 2£^-4 inches in diameter; fruit very large, 

 lz-2 inches in diameter, Roodiae, 



11. Leaves on the dried specimens 6-9 inches long and 3-3i 



lines thick, obtuse; corolla probably about 3 inches in 

 diameter. robusta. 



Leaves represented as being 3-5 inches long and about 2j 



lines thick, acute. _ fusiformas, 



N, E . Brown 

 (To be continued.) 



iNCHSaiBRYiil^ITHElvmi. 

 Card. Chron. HI. 90 : 136. 1931. 

 (Continued from page 14.) 



36 1, Conicosip pugionif ormis, N.E.Br, in Phillips ' Gen. of 



3. ;ifr. Fl. t. S47. — No tuber, roots fibrous, ^tem up to 2-3 

 feet hip;h end up to an inch in thickness, erect, and enduring for 

 6-9 years. Leaves 6-9 inches long on the main stem, shorter on 

 the flov/ering branches, triangular in cross-section, acute, v/ith 

 the upper or all three sides slightly concave and the angles all 

 all acute, of a somewhat glaucous-green, purlish at the base. 

 Flowering br^^nches a foot or more long, drooping, v;ith upcurved tips. 

 Pedicels smooth and rather terete than angular except at the apex. 

 Calyx v/ith the ovary-part somev/hat campanula tely obconic, and v/ith 

 five prominent ribs extending from the angles betv/een the lobes 

 down to the pedicel, on v;hich they are represented as slightly de- 

 current; lobes shorter than the petals, the inner with pallid mem- 

 branous margins. Corolla as represented membranous margin by 

 Dillenius, up to 4 inches in diameter, opening about 8-9 ip.m. 

 and remaining open until 4-5 p,m. in sunshine; outer petals, as 

 measured on the dried ty^-e specim-^n in the Dillenian Herbarium at 

 Oxford, about an inch long and £-1 line broad, but probably larger 

 v;hen alive, cuneately-linear, acutely acuminate, sparsely ciliate 

 from the base to the middle pale yellow on the inner face, dull red- 

 dish on the back, all the inner ones entirely pale yellow, shining. 

 Capsule 9-10 lines in diameter, dark brown, with 15-16 segments and 

 cells, — Card. Chron., 1928, Vol. IXQCrV, 253, 



