Introduced about two years ago from the Cape of Good 
Hope by Messrs. Colville, at whose nursery in the King’s 
Road the present drawing was made the summer before 
last. 
Bulb compressedly conic, laminze bifarious imbricated, 
inner ones longer. Leaves two, opposite, round-ovate, 
with a short point, coming up after the scape, shaggily and 
reflexly furred on both sides, twice shorter than the scape. 
Scape about 7 inches long, compressedly columnar, purplish, 
mottled, reflexedly hairy.. Spathe of several unequal lan- 
ceolate valves, aridly membranous, reflexed. Umbel loosely 
manyflowered: pedicles smooth, filiform, reddish: corolla 
brightish pink, about half an inch long, turbinate, tube 3 
times shorter than the spreading equal limb, segments 
ovally or obversely oblong. Stamens upright; filaments 
twice shorter than the limb, adhering to the short tubu- 
larly contracted disk of the corolla, white, stiff, subulate, 
thickish, alternately longer: anthers upright, ovally oblong, 
short, mucronate (tipped with a short distinct point), fixed 
on near the base at the back; pollen deep yellow. Germen 
roundish furrowless streakless, not much bigger than a 
grain of mustard-seed, smooth, green tinged with red; cells 
oneseeded, ovula somewhat oblong, turned downwards. 
Chpegle about the size of a pea, of a yellowish dingy green 
colour. 
