grass has been burnt off, and from this it derives its common 

 name of " Fire Lily." 



Description : — Bulb 4-6 cm. in diameter, ovoid ; tunics 

 brown, membranous. Leaves 2-3, contemporary with or 

 appearing after the flowers, 30-50 cm. long, 0*8-1*2 cm. broad, 

 linear, acuminate, acute, tapering to a terete petiole above 

 the flattened base, glabrous. Peduncle vandyke red (R.C.S.), 

 18 cm. long, lengthening in the fruit, 10 mm. in diameter, 

 terete, hollow, glabrous. Spathe-valves 4*5-5 cm. long, 8 mm. 

 broad near the base, linear, acute, membranous, glabrous. 

 Inflorescence, a 4-10-flowered umbel. Flowers pendulous, 

 scarlet-red to carmine (E.C.S.), faintly scented; pedicels 

 2-4 cm. long, strawberry- pink (E.C.S.), jointed at the apex; 

 perianth-tube 5-6 cm. long, tubular, narrowed at the base, 

 with an inflated portion about the middle ; lobes 1*3-1*5 cm. 

 long, 7 mm. broad, ovate-ellipsoid, acute, with a small tuft of 

 white hairs on the inner surface just below the apex. Stamens 

 inserted just below the throat, a little shorter than the perianth- 

 lobes; anthers chrome-yellow (E.C.S.), oblong. Ovary 1 cm. 

 long, 0*5 cm. in diameter, ovoid; style about the length of 

 the perianth-tube, included ; stigmas recurved. Seeds black, 

 flattened. — E. Percy Phillips. 



Plate 4. — Figs. 1 and 2, anthers back and side view; Fig. 3, apex of 

 the perianth, showing the tufts of hairs. 



F.P.S.A., 1920. 



