sentation of it has appeared in a recent fasciculus of Mons. 
Redouté’s work on Liliaceous plants; where it is stated to 
have then bloomed in the garden of the Museum of Natural 
History of Paris for the first time, and is surmised to be a 
native of Peru. But the presumption, in regard to its 
origin, must have arisen from some mistake. The seed 
from which the present plant has been raised was derived 
from Moscow, by way of Berlin. And the species is cer- 
tainly native of the oriental provinces of Russia, particularly 
of Dauria, where its roots, as well as that of other species, 
are eaten, and called Sarana by the Mogul natives. It 
comes near to chalcedonicum and pomponium, but differs from 
both by having a corolla free from excrescences, and by a 
smooth-edged groove down the segments; as well as from 
each respectively in other points. 
The root is a white bulb, about the size of a blackbird’s 
ege; while barren, producing three or four lorately lanceo- 
late leaves, about half an inch broad, tapered downwards as 
if petioled. In the fertile plant the foliage is wholly cau- 
line. Stem 6-7 inches high, not thicker than a small oaten 
straw, loosely set with fleshy patent narrow linear pointed 
leaves from two to three inches long, and little more than a 
line broad, obscurely carinated or keeled, with a blunt even 
unciliated edge. lowers odorous, 2-4 in a terminal umbel, 
surrounded at the base by an equal number of leaves, with 
a naked interval between them and the uppermost stem- 
ones; peduncles about two inches long. Corolla of an un- 
spotted orange-red or flame colour, cernuous and revolutely 
reflectent to the base, shorter than its peduncle ; the groove 
in each segment runs from about the middle to the base, 
and converges at the edge, ‘so as to form a covered channel 
or pipe. Germen green. Style and stigma reddish brown. 
Filaments red, divergent; pollen orange. 
A hardy plant, Introduced by Messrs. Whitley, Brames, 
and Milne, at whose nursery in the King’s Road, Fulham, 
the drawing was made in June last. 
Sn ceed 
« A barren root, with the foliage. 6 The pistil. 
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