veniently into the ranks of Scirra. A sort of compromise 
which has evidently arisen from respect for long-esta- 
blished names, applied when only few and distant species 
were known. Subsequently discovered species, as is often 
the case, have in length of time connected the genera so 
closely as to leave no distinction but the too arbitrary 
and instable one of colour. In Scirza the blue often varies 
to white; when all distinction ceases. The genera will 
one day be united, or else divided into smaller groupes. 
The present is an unrecorded plant, recently introduced 
by Mr. Burchell, who found it within the colony at the 
Cape of Good Hope, not far from Graaf Reynett. It is 
near akin to suaveolens and odoratum, but differs in having 
an entirely green flower which has no scent, by a glaucous 
foliage which is generally twisted towards the upper part, 
and by filaments with an ovately dilated base. 
` Bulb ovate with light brown integuments. Leaves from 
4 to 9, upright, patent, nearly a foot high, tapering from 
near the base, pointed. Scape little higher than these, 
slightly glaucous, about the thickness of a pen. Raceme 
many-flowered, loose, divaricate; peduncles straight, two or 
three times longer than the corolla: bractes membranaceous, 
lanceolate. Corolla fronting towards the horizon, nearly 
an inch across, stellate, of a green colour resembling that 
of the inside of the Pistachio-nut; segments nearly equal, 
oblong, obtuse, scarcely two lines broad, outer omes rather 
broadest, more depressed, slightly concave, inflectent at 
the end, imer flatter, glandularly thickened and whitish 
at the ends, sides deflected towards the base, so as to give 
them the appearance of being unguiculate. Filaments 
about one third shorter, upright, patent, white, ovate- 
subulate, flat, alternately wider, rather higher, and more 
broadly ovate at the base. Germen green, elliptically three- 
lobed, with a streak down the back of each lobe, and a 
prominent nerve intervening between the lobes: style se- 
taceous, three-streaked, longer than the germen, white: 
stigma obtuse, pubescent, overtopping the stamens. 
The drawing was made at Mr. Burchell's, Fulham, 
where several specimens of the species flowered jn August 
last. A hardy greenhouse plant. 
