rounds the base of the.stamens, entire, not as in all the ~ 
species where it has been yet met with, split or unravelled 
into a sort of fringe, or divided into scale-like lobes. A 
feature which narrows the compass of that part of the 
technical character which separates the genus from Nar- 
cissus, to the insertion of the filaments to within the tube 
below the base of the crown in that genus, and to their in- 
sertion at the summit of the tube on a level with the crown 
in this: 3 
A native of the Brazils, where it was found by. Mr. E. 
Woodford, and sent by him to this country. 
Bulb tunicated. Leaves many, firm, substantial, bifa- 
rious, upright, patent, lorate, lanceolate, about two feet 
and a half in length, from an inch to an inch and half in 
breadth, not glaucous, latticed-veined, channelled at the 
midrib and keeled, downwards narrowed involute and stiff- 
ened, upwards flattened, far acuminate. Scape (sometimes 
to of more in succession) rather shorter than the foliage, 
thick, cylindrical, tapering, straight, very slightly com- 
pressed, glaucous, not streaked, reddening below. Spathe 
bivalved, membranous, finely striate, twice shorter than 
the flowers. Flowers two, of the largest dimensions in the 
venus, of considerable endurance, of a yellowish green 
colour, without scent, peduncled, about five inches in 
length, from the base of the peduncle to the summit of the 
stigmas nine inches: peduncles as thick as a large pen, about 
equal to the germen or rather longer, trigonal with rounded 
cornets, green. Germen of greater circumference than the 
peduncle, about an inch long, obscurely 3-lobed, lobes 
ulvinate, not glaucous, unfurrowed. Orifice of the co- 
yolla widest crossways; tube nearly of the same diameter as 
the germen, straight, cylindric, obscurely trigonal, deep 
green, twice shorter than the limb; mb six-parted, semi- 
ringent, imbricated below, pale green, latticed-veined; seg- 
ments nearly equal, lanceolate, acute, undulate, paler at 
the edge, three exterior ones convex at the back, where they 
are of a deeper green and keeled, toward the top conni- 
vent, with a compressed point, ¢hree interior flatter in the 
‘disk involute reflectent: wpper middlemost vaulted, inclining 
forwards; the two side ones diyaricately recurved, slanting 
upwards, a little broader than the rest; three lower ones 
forming the nether lip, projecting more than those of the 
upper lip; ¢wo lower lateral ones resembling the upper middle 
segment; ower middle one resembling the two upper lateral 
