

oval, deeply and evenly serrate, when bruised diffusing 



p> 



t narcotic smell : raceme of a purple 

 f shaken dropping a sweet brownish liq 



wh 



is 



d by its pec 



placed 



b 

 and 



b 



To 



or spur at the base of the lower segment of the cab 

 from which the genus has obtained its appellation, 

 natives of the Cape and its neighbourhood this juice is a 

 well-known dainty, and when the plant is in bloom the 

 flower is unfailingly plucked by the first of them that de- 

 scries it. 



The calyx is here the conspicuous feature of the inflow 



the 



resence ; rne corolla being both inconspicuous and fuga- 



The last has been rightly described as of five petals 

 by Jussieu, not of four, as we find it said to be in the 



cious. 



Genera Plantarum and subsequent compilations. When the 

 flower is reversed, it reminds us of some insect of the grass- 

 hopper kind. 



U 



kept 



the srreenh 



thod 



to 



b 



M 



flow 



say 



d, and to cover the shoots in frosty 



, the 

 open 



prevent their b 

 a wall with a s 

 rubbish, that il 

 less succulent 



killed 



the 



top ; having first ch 



pect, and placed the plant in dry 



may shoot less vigorously, be 



d therefore fai 



the influence 



offr 



For, if the stalk is killed 



prouts again, it will not fl 



top, although it 



the same season. Mul- 



plied by suckers taken off at any time from March to 

 September. In favourable summers it ripens seed. 



The drawing was taken at Mrs. Howard's nursery, King's 

 Road, Little Chelsea, in May last. 



a The flower as it appears when the calyx has been removed, b The 

 nectary taken from the segment of the calyx which contained it. c The 

 separate fifth petal of the corolla, d The four coherent ones of the same. 

 e The pistil. 







