bloomed in this country. Not having had an opportunity 
of dissecting the flower, we shall not attempt to make apy — 
addition to the very correct outline of it by Mr. Brown. 
A perennial herbaceous plant. Rootstock fleshy. Radi- 
cal leaves several, surrounding the stem, the flat side facing 
inwards, narrowly linear, elongated, scarcely exceeding tw? 
lines in breadth, channelled, keeled, ultimately revolute 
along the edges, membranously enlarged and _half-sheath- 
ing at the base: cauline ones distant, short. Stem round, 
simple. Raceme terminal, undivided. Peduncles while — 
flowerbearing recurved, when fruitbearing upright; bractes— 
at their base double, twice as short, one interior and shorte! 
than the one at the side. Corolla tubular, six-lobed at the — 
orifice, withering. Stamens placed on the tube. Anther’s 
fixed on at the conical aperture of the base. Germen. pe-— 
dicled. Séyle subulate. “Stigma simple. Capsule prism-_ 
shaped, partable into three, each of which opens at the in- — 
terior angle. Seeds in two rows, inserted at the edges of the — 
seam or suture, festa or outer coat loose, pubescent. . 
The germen begins to protrude from the mouth of the 
flower, soon after the flower expands. 
