several genera cannot be doubted, but the principles upon 
which they are to be separated remain to be ascertained ; 
and in our judgment it is wiser to refer a doubtful plant to 
an admitted genus provisionally, than, upon uncertain prin- 
ciples, to create a new one, which the next discovered 
species may render it necessary to remove. 
Bulb egg-shaped, brown, half out of the ground. Leaves 
distichous, linear-lanceolate, a foot and half long, bright 
green, carinate, recurved, spreading, striate, obtuse at the 
end. Scape rounded, two feet high. Umbel 6-flowered. 
Spathe 2-leaved, membranous, withered, much shorter than 
the flower-stalks; bractes filiform, flaccid. Flower-stalks 
rounded, erect, the length of the flower. Flowers nodding, 
flame-coloured, below the limb pale-green.. Segments. of 
the flower rolled together in a cylindrical tube, Somewhat 
spreading at the end, ovate, flat, apiculate, the three inner 
covered oyer by the outer. Stamens 6, declinate, the 
length of the segments. Style filiform, declinate, longer 
than the stamens, saffron-coloured at the end. Stigma 
quite simple. ; Mi aul 
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