The drawing was taken in the conservatory at South 
Lambeth, in May last. 
“The whole plant is quite smooth. Bulb ovately 
round, compactly scaled, with brown integuments. Leaves 
radical, generally three, filiform, semicylindrical pointed, 
shining, purplish at the base, green as to the rest, more or 
less flexuose, reclined, stiffish, the largest sometimes a foot 
in length, together with the centrical scape all enclosed at 
the base by one or two scariose pale coloured transversely 
wrinkled rootsheaths, about half an inch long, splitting and 
turning to one side when the plant flowers. Scape round, 
simple, shining, flexuose, upright, about the length and 
diameter of the leaves, purplish below. Raceme straight. 
Flowers without scent, about seven. Peduncles hardly half 
an inch long, spreading, subtended by a lanceolately taper- 
pointed bracte. Segments of the corolla oblong, obtuse, 
slightly concave, wide-spread, whitish, with a green (or 
purplish) vertical line along the middle of both surfaces, 
three alternate ones broader than the other three. Filaments 
subulate, equal, beardless, upright, twice shorter than the 
corolla, white. Anthers oblong, upright, yellow. Germen 
superior, oblong, three-cornered. Style. filiform, ascend- 
ing, white, the length of the stamens. Stigma slightly 
capitate, villous.” 
_ We had no opportunity of inspecting the plant in blos- 
som, and have taken the above description of the species 
from Jacquin. 
