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duller, sometimes it is nearly all green; the germens are 

 slightly swollen ; the tubes from four to five inches long, 

 nearly cylindrical, and of a dull shining lake ; the backs of 

 the laciniae, before they expand, exhibit the same colour as 

 the tube, but more brilliant ; the laciniaj, when expanded, are 

 upwards of six inches long, lanceolate, and shew their inner 

 surface white, with a broad stripe of lake down the centre ; 

 the filaments are purple, half the length of the laciniae ; the 

 anthers, when open, are yellow ; the stigma is purple, and a 

 little longer than the filaments. The whole bunch of flowers 

 grows compactly together; but frequently extends two feet; 

 I have counted fourteen blossoms open at the same time, 

 each of them a foot in expansion ; they are individually of 

 short duration, the outside ones open first, and at that time 

 those that are nearest the centre are in the state of buds of 

 different sizes, but all smaller and shorter than the outer 

 ones. 



No description can convey a adequate idea of the splen- 

 dour of this magnificent plant, which possesses the additional 

 charm of an agreeable fragrance in its blossoms. The colour 

 has been variously described as rose, rosy-purple, and car- 

 mine ; but I think it is nearest to a lake. I have frequendy 

 impregnated the stigma with the pollen of its own anthers ; 

 but the germen constantly falls a short time after the flowers 

 are withered. It propagates itself very slowly by offsets ; 

 the plant I have described produced one in 1819, and is 

 now giving another, which comes up close from the base of 

 the bulb. 



The parent of Lady Long's plant is now in the garden of 

 Sir Abraham Hume at Wormleybury, in Hertfordshire ; 



