June last. The white one has been frequently mistaken for 
arabicum, a very distinct species, and remarkable for its 
black-green shining and nearly globular germen, faithfully 
represented by the figure in Curtis’s Magazine. 
Bulb tunicate, nearly round. Leaves several, in dif- 
ferent directions, lorately tapered, recurved and usually re- 
cumbent, flattish, shining, edged with a fine short down, 
about 5 inches long, embracing each other convolutely at 
the base. Scape round, glaticous, a foot and a half high, 
flexuosely upright. Raceme manyflowered, corymbosely 
fastigiate, about half a foot long, at first of an orange- 
yellow, afterwards strawcoloured. Bractes single, convo- 
lutely ovate, with a long point, twice shorter than the 
pedicles or more, these last being about an inch and a half 
in length. Corolla rotately campanulate, about an inch 
and a half across, converging over the germen soon after 
expansion, at no time completely and flatly expanded, seg- 
ments celliptically oblong, nearly equal, concave, lapping 
over each other by the edges of the sides. Stamens 3 times 
shorter than the corolla, from upright spreading, bent in- 
wards at the top, ash-coloured; filaments subulate, winged 
at the lower part, the wings of the alternate ones broader 
and deeper than those of the others, and furnished at the top 
with two blunt-topped convergent teeth. Germen ash- 
coloured, oblong, obtusely three-cornered, slightly 6-fur- 
rowed; style continuous, short, thickish, three-cornered: 
stigma 3-lobedly headed, slightly pubescent, shorter than 
the style. 
An ornamental greenhouse plant of easy culture. Propa- 
gated by offsets from the bulb. 
