des Serres ’ in separating Lemaire’s L. neilgherricum , which I 
cannot see is distinguishable even as a variety. 
Descr. Bulb globose, two to three inches in diameter, 
developed upon a rhizome which reaches a length of half a 
foot ; scales thick, white, ovate-lanceolate. Stem one to two 
feet high, green, glabrous, stiffly erect, half an inch thick in 
the lower part. Leaves moderately crowded, all scattered, 
thirty or forty to a stem, sessile, lanceolate, three or four 
inches long, half or three-quarters of an inch broad at the 
middle, firm in texture, bright green, strongly five-nerved, 
glabrous even on the ribs beneath. Flowers one, two, or 
three, horizontal or nearly so, pure white except the outside 
of the tube which is greenish, fragrant, narrowly funnel- 
shaped, varying in length from six to ten inches, the per- 
manently connivent claws of the segments half as long again 
as their falcate oblong limb, which in the three inner ones 
is usually half as broad again as in the three outer. Stamens 
about three-quarters as long as the perianth ; anthers some- 
times an inch long ; pollen bright yellow. Ovary cylindrical, 
above an inch long ; style thickened gradually above the 
middle, reaching to the top of the stamens ; stigma capitate, 
deeply three-lobed. — J. G . Baker. 
