Gonioscypha
(from gonia, an angle, and skyphe, a cup; in allusion to the angled, cup-like perianth). ORD. Liliaceae A monotypic genus. The species is a stove perennial, of striking appearance. It requires similar culture to Anthericum (which see, on p. 83, in Vol. I.).
G. eucomoides (Eucomis-like). fl., perianth dull green, campanulate, with six sub-orbicular, very obtuse lobes; scape simple, leafless, bearing a dense, cylindrical spike of flowers, surmounted by a crown of fine, subulate bracts, similar bracts being mixed with the flowers. l. in a rosette, elliptic, acute, 1ft. long, 4in. to 5 1/2in. broad. Rootstock short, fleshy. Bhotan, 1886.