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ae ea 
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cuneate-based or less commonly shortly narrowed and imbricate 
below, often twisted a usually not pie lanceolate, elliptic, 
oval or obovate, more or less aie or the outer sometimes obtuse 
and mucronate, spr adeg. rved or =m egularly eres 
Corona flat and discoid, or careless slightly convex, 12-1 
exserted, the three lower just emerging from the perianth- tube. 
Style of variable length, sonatas equalling vies shorter stamens, 
sometimes exceeding t the longer ones. fruit about 15 mm. long, 
ellipsoid, somewhat trigonous and furrowed. 
B ORNATUS, NOV. var 
N. poeticus var. ornatus Barr in Fl. et Pomol. 101 (1884) et 
hort., non N. ornatus Hawor 
Bulbus ovoideus, 25-30 = in diametro. _ Folia erecta, scapo 
ululum breviora, 8-10 mm inferne plicata sed 
apicem versus complanata, obscure —- ‘Scapus 30-45 cm. 
longus, anceps, tenue cilis 
age gracillimo pre iit itus. Hewes, odaritl 5°5-6°5 ¢ 
metro, perianthi tubo gracili pallido et segmentis niveis "(beat 
a tinctis) sepissime obovatis, rotundato-obtusis vel exteriori- 
bus oe. paulo latiora sunt truncato-mucronatis, omnibus infra 
angustatis basin versus vix imbricatis, patentibus fere gery 
vel Tnterionbts undulatis, rarius omnibus recurvatis. 
subdiscoidea 10-13 mm. lata, lutea ori angusté coccinea Aephee 
quam circulus sah Late albus explicatur circumscripta, margine 
ten 
er plicato-crenulato-serrato obscure serene eae Stamina 
subequalia, ake omnibus plus minusve exsertis. Stylus vi 
exsertus, staminibus haud longior. Fructus circa 18 mm. ionitue, 
obovato- igen tes obtuse trigonus, s el 
Planta originis oe iwi ge e Gallia Narbonensi ablata, 
et fortasse inter N. ex et N. majalem hybrid 
Bulb larger than in a the type, 25-30 mm. in dirs Leaves 
also slightly larger, spe cent. Scape 30-45 cm. long, finely 
striate, rn but less so than in the type; spathe moderately 
thick. Flower 5: 5-65 ¢ .in iaeleless outer perianth-segments 
more or eee s broadly ta te, retuse- mucronate, inner ones Yr — 
ed-o 
and suewky imbricate below, sorsadieas and near! rags he 
inner waved, more rarely all recurved. Corona su dita and 
nearly flat, 10-13 mm. broad, chrome-yellow with a narrow, 
scarlet-red edge and, at maturity, a very narrow white ring within 
it; obscurely "plicate-rugose with finely plicate-crenulate-serrate 
margin, Style just exserted from the perianth-tube, not exceeding 
the stamens. /ruit larger than in the type, about 18 mm. long, 
obovate-ellipsoid, bluntly trigonous, furrowed. Otherwise as in 
the 
7 crits tus, a May-flowering species perhaps confined to Switzer- 
land, appears ‘to have been distinguished by Caspar Bauhin and by 
