
Refugium Botanicum.] [June, 1873. 
TAB. 348. 
Natural Order LInIAcE&. 
Tribe MInLE&. 
Genus Leucocoryne, Lindl. 
L. rx1o1es (Lindley, Bot. Reg. sub. t. 1293). Bulbo ovoideo, foliis 
paucis synanthiis anguste lorato-linearibus 9—12 poll. longis 
11—2 lin. latis, scapo fragili tereti 1—1}-pedali, umbellis 
8—12-floris, pedicellis spathe valvis linearibus longioribus, 
perianthio 12—15 lin. longo, segmentis oblongis acutis albis 
purpureo tinctis tubo equilongis, staminodiis segmentis 2—9- 
plo brevioribus. — Baker, Linn. Journ, xi. 874. L. odorata, 
Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1298. 
A native of Chili and the mountains of Peru. 
Bulb ovoid, brown-tunicated, half to three-fourths of an inch 
thick. Leaves three to four, cotemporary with the flowers, linear- 
lorate, three-fourths of a foot to a foot long, a line and a half to 
two lines broad, acute, channelled down the face, evanescent. 
Scape terete, slender, erect, a foot to a foot and a half high. 
Valves of the spathe linear, membranous. Umbels three- to 
twelve-flowered. Pedicels ascending, an inch to an inch and a 
half long. Perianth an inch to an inch and a quarter long, the 
tube as long as the divisions, which are white more or less tinged 
with purple, oblong, acute, two and a half to three lines broad, 
spreading horizontally, or rather reflexed when fully expanded. 
Stamens three, with very short jilaments, inserted below the 
middle of the tube. Staminodia spur-like, inserted at the throat 
of the tube, much shorter than the segments, sometimes—as in the 
specimens drawn—abnormally bearing anthers and sometimes S1x 
in number. Ovary sessile, with a very short style; the stigma on 
a level with the anthers down in the perianth-tube. 
Tas, 348.—1, section of abnormal flower, with the staminodia- 
producing anthers; 2, pistil; 3, horizontal section of ovary: all 
magnified.—J. G. B. 
ree 
A free-flowering bulb, producing white flowers tinged with 
purple. It requires the same treatment as T'riteleia conspicua 
(Tab. 43). I received the plant from Mr. E. Reed, procured by 
him near Santiago de Chili— WV. W. S. 
