taken from а specimen that flowered in his collection at 
Fulbam, in August last, and had been brought from the 
Cape by himself. 
The species was introduced by Mr. Masson in 1774, 
and some of the specimens, which flowered at Kew, are 
preserved in the Banksian Herbarium. The plant however 
has been long since lost in the gardens. It comes near to Or- 
NITHOGALUM tenellum ; which is a much larger species, with a 
black-covered bulb, linear leaves shorter than the scape, 
pedicles much longer than the flowers, subulate filaments 
of one size, cream-coloured anthers, and germen pale below 
and yellow above. 
Bulb in niveum oblately spherical, about the size of a 
Bullace-plum, smooth, greenish above. Leaves about 4, 
filiform, tapered, channelled, dark green, of a grassy and 
rather tough consistence (not tender and fleshy as more usual 
in the genus), upright, recurved, sometimes twice the 
length of the scape, not much thicker near the top than a 
bristle, membranously dilated at the base. Scape (some- 
times several) stiffish, 1-3 inches high. Flowers 2-10, in а 
loose upright raceme, scentless, white, scarcely 3 of an 
inch across. Bractes membranous, broadly ovate, with a 
brown keel, terminated by an abrupt bristieshaped point, 
pressed against the pedicles, which surmount them but little. 
Pedicles upright, filiform, rather shorter than the corolla. 
Corolla clear white within, flatly outspread, sixparted; seg- 
ments lanceolately oblong, three outer ones rather the 
broadest, more concave, keeled at the back, which has 
a green oblong mark, inner ones flat, slightly or not at all 
marked with green at the back. Filaments white, flat, 
about + shorter than the corolla, upright, spreading, alter- 
nate ones lanceolate, and rather the longest, the three others 
subulate, and nearly once and a half narrower. Anthers 
deep yellow, short. Germen green, oblong, roundly tri- 
gonal, 3-furrowed: style rather shorter than the germen, 
white, triangular: stigma а triangular point of the same 
colour and not thicker. 
