AND THEIE CULTDEE. 



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sketcli ; some of these subterranean stolons were fully 2 feet in lengthy 

 each having from five to six bulblets, according to the length or number 



L. Kcihjhcrrcnse (India, Xeilgherry Hills) ; one-half natural size ; («) cultivatecr 

 flo-wering bulb ; (h) cultivated subten-anean stem-producing bulb, the stem bearing 

 bulbils at the nodes ; (c) section of scale ; colour, yellow or yellowish white, sometimes 

 tinged with j)urple or bro'wn. 



of the nodes, and here and there a few root -fibres. These fibres, how- 

 ever, were not so strong as the whoi'l of roots near the base of the 

 flowering stems, and the bul1)s which produced these bulblet-bearing 

 stolons, had not increased in size, by the increment of new growth ; 

 indeed, in some cases where the stoloniferous bulbs were large? than 

 usual, they seemed to have, as a rule, exhausted the parent bulb. 

 Mr. James Mcintosh, of Oatlands, Wey bridge, planted a bulb of this 

 plant in his garden, in May, 1876, which produced a flower stem 4 feet 

 7 inches in height, bearing a solitary flower fully 7 inches across the 



