Stembergia lutea (Gawl). 
(Nat. Ord. Amaryllidaceae) 
Amaryllis lutea, Linnaeus, AUioni, 
Leaves of an intense green, 2-3 deci- 
metres long by about 2 centimetres wide, 
a little curved toward the ground, with 
surfaces not quite smooth but lined by 
numerous parallel minute veins, and with 
a central longitudinal channelling convex 
in the inferior page so as to resemble at 
first sight a mid-rib. The leaves ai their 
base embrace the stalk below which is a 
bulb. 
Scape a little shorter than leaves with 
an unique large hermaphrodite flower of 
