Mr. Griffin thinks that the bulbs of the two are different. 
But as.the distinctions we observed, were such as we con~ 
ceive to be within the scope of both seminal variation and 
exotic culture, we think it safer to record the plant as a dis- 
tinguished variety of the present species, than to separate it 
by a new name, before either the permanence of the dif- 
ferences has been proved, or its original abode ascertained. 
The drawing was taken in May last, at Mr. Griffin’s, at 
South Lambeth, where the plant flowered in the hothouse, 
There are other specimens of it both in the Cambridge and 
Liverpool botanic gardens. 
Bulb ob\ong, with dark brown membranous integue 
ments. Leaves several, in different directions, recurved, 
convolutely sheathing below, longer than the flawer-stem, 
inner ones narrower, more upright, sharply channelled, 
-. Flowerstem froma foot and a half to two feet high or more, 
round, very faintly and bluntly two-edged, glaucous, solid. | 
Spathe two-valyed, dry, acuminate, twice shorter than the 
-umbel, Flowers 6-8, from 6 to 9 inches long, rose-coloured 
and white, sweet-scented: peduncles very short, nearly as 
_thick as the germen. Tube of the corolla linear, obtusely 
3-cornered, sometimes curved, resembling a peduncle, 
- smooth at the orifice: limb turbinately campanulate, slightly 
semiringent, sixparted quite to the base, nearly twice shorter 
than the tube, segments ovally oblong, three outer ones the 
- broadest, with a hooked point, Filaments crimson, inclined, 
about a third shorter than the limb: anthers balanced, 
when the pollen is evacuated curved like a crescent: pollen 
sulphur-coloured. Style very slender, crimson: stigma de- 
pressedly headed, slightly triangular, subpybescent, Cap. — 
sule bulbispermous, epi ee, meee 
