This is a most distinct and beautiful bulb, allied to Eucharis, but differing in a very marked degree from that universal favourite in the form and colour of the flowers. The foliage resembles that of Eucharis pretty closely in form and colour, but is smaller. The flowers are supported on stout, erect stalks, are pendulous, very slender at the base, but widening towards the centre, and becoming contracted and shortly reflexed at the apex. They are clear golden yellow, tipped with green and white. The plant succeeds well under greenhouse treatment, but is invaluable as a winter flower for the stove. For this purpose it must be grown on during summer and rested in autumn, for it requires a thorough dry rest for six or eight weeks; and when thus treated, it may be introduced in batches, in the same way as Amaryllis or Eucharis, into the stove to flower and to make growth, which should be briskly encouraged after flowering is over. It likes a strong rich loam. As a companion and contrast to both Eucharis and Amaryllis it is charming, and deserves to be better known and more generally grown than it is.

It frequently, indeed generally, flowers without foliage, which is a drawback to its use as a table plant, for which it is otherwise admirably adapted; but this may be compensated for in a pretty satisfactory way by pricking the surface of the pot full of Selaginella, when it is brought into heat to flower. When done in this way, it is one of the most elegant things imaginable for fitting into small vases on the dinner-table or in the parlour. A. X. E.