AND THEIK CULTUEE. 



sketch ; some of these subterranean stolons were fully 2 feet in length, 

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



L. Neilglierrense (India, Neilgherry Hills) ; one-half natural size ; (a) cultivated 

 flowering bulb ; (&) cultivated subterranean stem-producing bulb, the stem bearing 

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

 tinged with purple or brown. 



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

 ever, were not so strong as the whorl of roots near the base of the 

 flowering stems, and the bulbs 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 larger than 

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

 Mr. James Mclntosh, 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 



