whole, and bears the bulb at its summit, or in the centre 
when flattened, in the shape of a bud, and is thence termed 
bulbicipitous. In the present species the rootstock is of 
considerable magnitude, cylindric and conical, marked with 
annular scars, and bristled with the fibrous remnants of the 
bygone foliage. Leaves many (10), fasciculate, upright, pa- 
tent, outer ones twisted, inner longest, marrowest, about 
eight inches high, linear-lanceolate, tapering from near 
their base, triangular, with a sharp keel and channel, about 
three fourths of an inch over at the broadest, thinly pu- 
bescent, except at the edges, where they are thickly so. 
Scape stiff, inclined, round, hispid, rather shorter than the 
inuer leaves. Flowers few, scentless, of a shining yellow 
colour within, disposed in a loose irregular raceme, upper 
ones subfastigiate: pedicles equal to the linear-subulate 
keeled bractes, two or three times shorter than the corolla. 
Germen short, roughly pubescent, continuous with the 
pedicle. Corolla persistent, firm; segments nearly equal, 
elliptically oblong, obtuse, outer rather narrowest, with 
a small subpubescent point, inner deflectent at each side. 
Anthers lanceolate, three times longer than the subulate 
filaments, yellow. Style half the length of the stamens, 
conical, triquetral: stigmas united. 
Hyroxis borders closely upon GacEa, a genus which 
Mr. Salisbury has judiciously detached from OrNITHOGALUM ; 
but in that the corolla is inferior, below the germen. 
. The drawing was taken from a plant which flowered 
in Mr. Burchell's collection at Fulham in August last. Re- 
quires the shelter of the greenhouse, 
