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continental collections of Europe for about twenty years 
past; although the place of its spontaneous abode had. not 
been ascertained till now. It is among the smallest of the 
genus, but of considerable elegance, and very fragrant. 
Bulb 4 or 5 inches high, of an ovately cylindrical form, 
but not porraceous, or elongated into a neck or above- 
ground-stem. Leaves many, multifariously divergent, from 
a foot to a foot and half long, from 3 to 5 inches broad, 
oblong or broadly lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, edged by 
a narrow threadlike white smooth cartilage ter minating in 
a hard point, generally curled or waved towards the base, 
‘where they are for a short space involute and contracted. 
Scape from 8 inches to a foot high, considerably com- 
pressed, flatter on the side next the bulb than on the oppo- 
site one. Spathe about three inches long. Umbel 10-20- 
flowered, bracteose, or conspicuously intermingled with nu~ 
merous pale lanceolate bractes longer than the tube of the 
corolla. Flowers white, shortly peduncled, when extended 
about five inches long: tube straight, roundish, obsoletely 
trigonal: segments of the limb recurvedly stellate, re- 
flectent, lanceolate-linear, nearly equal, as long as or 
rather longer than the tube, exterior ones about the third. 
of an inch broad, interior flatter and a little narrower. 
Filaments regularly divergent, a third shorter than the limb 
or more, crimson upwards; anthers balancing, bent. Style 
shorter than the stamens, crimson: stigma a green ob- 
soletely trilobulate point: germen: oblong, short. 
_ The drawing was made from a plant which flowered 
last autumn at Wormleybury, date seat i of Sir Abraham 
Hume, in Hertfor dshire. 
Like the rest of the genus, it must be kept in the bark- 
bed, or on the flue of the hothouse. 
ensis. 
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By the side of the leaf and inflorescence we have shown an 1 outline of 
iis ays part of the bulb diminished, | 
Not recorded in the late edition ay the Hortus Kew, i 
