Inflorescence an umbel of about 11 flowers. Bracts 2*5 cm. 

 long, ovate, acuminate. Pedicels 1*7 cm. long, terete, glabrous. 

 Perianth-tube 2*5 cm. long, 6 mm. in diameter at the throat, 

 funnel-shaped, reddish-scarlet ; lobes 5 mm. long. 5 mm. 

 broad, elliptic or sub-orbicular, with a minute apiculus; the 

 3 outer lobes with a glandular structure at the apex. Stamens 

 inserted near the throat of the perianth-tube; anthers in 2 

 rows, sessile, 4 mm. long. Ovary 4 mm. long, ellipsoid ; style 

 2*2 cm. long, filiform ; stigmas 3 linear. — E. Pekcy Phillips. 



Plate 37. — Fig. 1, leaf and flowers, natural size ; Fig. 2, bulb and base of 

 leaves ; Fig. 3, perianth laid open ; Fig. 4, portion of style showing the 

 stigmas. 



F.P.S.A., 1921. 



