The figures of the species in Redouté’s work have been 
taken from dried samples. The drawing of the present 
variety was made at Mr. Griffin’s, South Lambeth, where the 
bulbs had been obtained from Lisbon; and are, we believe, 
the first that have been seen in our gardens, at least we find 
no mention of the species having been ever introduced. We 
suppose it would do well in the open ground. 
Leaves membranous, much longer than the scape, nar- 
rowly linear, blunt, convex and fluted on the outside, on 
the inside streakless and channelled, flat at the upper part, 
greyish green (viewed through a glass, thickly beset with 
white minute vesicular particles). Scape produced in the 
spring, 4-5 inches high, upright, round. Spathe of one 
piece; upright, splitting into two segments: peduncle stiff- 
ish, recurved. - Germen short, oblong, green, streakless, 
furrowless. Corolla white, firm, turbinately campanulate, 
segments with a thickened fluted longitudinal disk without 
any keel or channel ; outer ones ovally oblong, taper-pointed, 
quite entire, flat, with a frosted pubescent mucro (distinct 
point), hooked at the base; inner ones rather shorter and 
broader, obovately elliptical, rounded at the point, with a 
nearly obsolete mucro, quite entire. Stamens upright, con- 
verging, about + shorter than the corolla: filaments 3-4 
times shorter than the anthers, standing apart, imbowed, 
compressedly linear, white: anthers deep yellow, large, sa- 
gittately linear, fixed at the back of their base, fasciculately — 
contiguous, opening on each side at the top by a small rent. 
Staminiferous disk yellowish green, with 6 crenated plaits, 
and 6 small lobes, which alternate with the filaments. 
Style white, but little longer than the stamens, filiform, 
three-furrowed, terminated by a small blunt stigmatose tip. 
