germen, in the second scarcely as long again, while in 
fulgida it is several times longer; in the two next the tube 
is crowned, in this naked, and its foliage is much shorter 
than in any of the others. There are several less promi- 
nently distinctive features that mark each relatively, and 
which a comparison of the detailed descriptions will show. 
The plant had previously flowered in the hothouse of Mr. 
Herbert’s collection at Spofforth, and an umbel of 4 rather 
larger flowers was produced on it. The bulbs were pur- 
chased at Mr. Williams’s nursery, Turnham Green; and are 
said to be from the Brasils. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, a third shorter than the scape, 
2 inches broad. Scape round, not glaucous. Flowers 2-4, 
without scent, peduncles upright, about an inch and half 
long or more. Corolla move than 5 inches long, and some- 
times more than 6 from side to side of the margin of the 
aperture, of a bright glittering salmon-colour, veiny with 
a large greenish white fancial star: tube about an inch long, 
yariegated on the outside with numerous small broken 
orange-coloured or tawny stripes and dots, and likewise in 
the inside, but less thickly so, orifice smooth or not crowned: 
aux contractedly turbinate, somewhat protuberant be- 
neath; limb recurvedly patent, slantingly ringent; blade 
of the upper middle segment ovally lanceolate, wholly re- 
flectent, about an inch and half wide; of the two upper 
lateral ones slightly ascending towards the middle one, 
nearly a fifth shorter, ‘and twice as narrow; of the two 
lower lateral ones equal to the upper middle one, slightly 
declining towards the lower middle one, with a greater 
curve at the upper margin than the lower; of the lower- 
most one oblong and equal to those of the upper lateral ones. 
Filaments faintly vermilion-coloured, declined and assurgent, 
unequal, the longest about { shorter than the limb, — Ger- 
men green, subturbinate; with numerous white flat closely 
-piled ovula in each loculament. 
