breadth when fully developed, with fifteen to twenty cernuous 
pure white flowers. Lower pedicels fifteen to eighteen lines long, 
each subtended by a single lanceolate membranous bract about 
an inch in length. Perianth-tube between campanulate and infun- 
dibuliform, half an inch deep and nearly as thick, tinged with 
green on the outside towards the base, the pure white subequal 
obovate-lanceolate divisions nearly twice as long as the tube and 
about half as broad as long, forming an angle of 45° with the 
tube when fully expanded. Stamens subuniseriate from the throat 
of the tube, the pure white filaments flattened at the base and 
much shorter than the divisions of the perianth. Ovary oblong, 
bluntly grooved, with a style about its own length. Capsule 
oblong, wrapped round with the faded flower, deeply bluntly 
three-grooved when mature, the very numerous small triquetrous 
biseriate seeds quite filling the cells. Testa thin, nearly black. 
Tab. 174.— 1, flower cut open; 2, horizontal section of ovary: both 
magnified.—J. G. B. 
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This very free-flowering bulb is‘ of great beauty, and very 
valuable as an ornamental plant, its large nodding white flowers, 
produced in an elongated spike, giving it a peculiar and graceful 
appearance. It succeeds well in a mixture of light sandy loam 
and peat, and may be grown in pots in a cool greenhouse or pit 
with plenty of air, or in a warm sheltered border. Mr. Thomas 
Cooper sent me bulbs of this plant from South Africa. — 
Wiles: 
