A supernumerary plate has been added to our fasciculus, 
to represent the appearance of the ripe fruit. 
Bulb ovate: leaves 3 or more, upwards of 2 feet high, 
bifarious, fistularly sheathing at the lower part, the half 
of the sheath on the side opposite to the blade being 
membranaceous; blade lanceolately elongated channelled, 
about 2 inches broad. Scape 2-3 feet high, compressed, 
two-edged. Spathe sphacelately membranous, _ ovately 
cuspidate. Flowers 3-6, deep yellow, about 6 inches 
long, sessile or sometimes shortly peduncled: tube up-— 
right, green, thick, fleshy, 3-cornered, continuous with 
a several times shorter germen, equal to the limb, curved 
at the top: limb nodding, sixparted, stellate; segments 
linearly lanceolate, taper-pointed, wide apart: crown of the 
same colour as the, limb and but little shorter, oblately 
campanulate, denticulate, 12-cleft, the clefts alternately 
narrower, the 6 broadest bearing the stamens, marked 
within by a green longitudinal streak below the foot of 
every stamen. Jlaments robust, roundedly subulate, short, 
rather higher than the clefts in which they stand, conver- 
gent below the rim of the crown: anthers incumbent, 
slanting. Germen green, ovately 3-cornered: style fili- 
form, 3-cornered, whitish, thicker than the filaments: stig- 
mas 3, very short. Capsule bulbispermous. 
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