try had not been ascertained; but it is now however known, 
from Dr. Roxburgh’s manuscripts, to belong to China; and 
by a native sample in the Lambertian Herbarium to Japan. 
It comes very near to AMaryuiis undulata of the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
At Messrs. Colvill’s nursery in the King’s Road, Chelsea, 
where the drawing was taken, the plant had been made to 
flower by being kept during the first part of the summer in 
the hothouse and then plunged into a common hot-bed. The 
bulbs are apt to break down into numerous offsets, while 
the outer coat remains entire, so that they appear like one 
bulb with numerous leaves; a closer inspection however 
shows that they consist of several bulbs with 3 leaves to 
éach bulb. 
Leaves about 3, bifarious, linearly ligulate, channelled, 
about 4 an inch wide, of a dark glaucously clouded green, 
channel greener than the sides, obtuse. Scape cotemporary 
with the leaves, round, slightly compressed from 7 inches to a 
foot and a half high. ‘Spathe sphacelate, 4-5-flowered, se- 
veral times longer than the peduncles: peduncles green, firm, 
obsoletely angular, several times shorter than the flowers, 
which have no smell. Corolla semiform, facing the hori- 
zon, of a glittering rose-red, nearly 3 inches in diameter, 
divaricately radiant, equal: ube green, extremely ‘short, 
almost none, bent downwards, cylindrical, compresséd, 
nearly of the calibre of the germen: limb 6-parted, either of 
one upper lip or sometimes with a very disproportionate 
lower one, segments apart from each other, linearly ligulate, 
about 2 lines broad or thereabout, curled, channelled, mu- 
cronate, recurved towards the top, with a green keel along 
the back; all either converging towards the upper middle 
one into a semicircularly radiant upper lip, or else with the 
middle lower one remaining alone below the stamens for an 
under lip. Filaments declinedly assurgent, of the same 
colour as the corolla, but nearly as long again, pointing 
forwards and diverging, firm, subulately elongated, inserted 
at the mouth of the tube: anthers small, oblong, balan- 
cing, deep red, with yellow pollen. Style of the same shape 
‘and colour ‘as the filaments, but thicker and longer (3 
inches or more in length): stigma a simple frosted whitish 
oint. Germen green, round and triply protuberant, with 
several (4?) globular ovules in two rows in each cell. 
