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CUMMINGIA TRIMACULATA. 
attenuated, flexile pedicels. The leaves are long and narrow, and surround the 
flower-stalk without rising high enough to interfere with the exposure of the 
flowers ; but instead, they are spread out with a pleasing gentle curvature. 
It flowers in May and June, and when grown in a pot is a neat plant to place 
on the front stage of a greenhouse. To have fine flowering specimens for the open 
borders, the bulbs should be potted early in a light sandy loam, and started into 
growth in a frame, to be planted out, as soon as it can be safely done, without 
injury from frost, in a warm border prepared with a similar soil. But the bulbs 
may be allowed to remain in the ground all winter, as they merely require to have 
the ground covered with some protecting material to preserve them uninjured from 
severe frosts. 
Cummingia is a genus formerly incorporated with Conanthera^ but separated 
by Mr. D. Don, and named in compliment to Lady Gordon Gumming. The 
specific name of the present species is expressive of the large dark spot at the base 
of each of the three petals. 
