Cypuia may be known from Losera by a 5-petalled 
corolla, hairy filaments, anthers detached from each other, 
tuberous root, and very different general habit. The genus 
was judiciously separated by Bergius, a botanist who has 
done much for the vegetable history of the Cape of Good 
Hope. The species at present known all belong to South 
Africa. Several, unlike the one before us, have divided 
leaves and twining stems. 
C. Phyteuma has been now first introduced by Messrs. 
Colvill, of the Chelsea Nursery, from the Cape of Good 
Hope. It flowered in their hothouse in February last, 
when the drawing was taken. We are not aware that 
the living plant was ever before in any collection in Eu- 
rope. 
Tuber oblong, subovate. Radical leaves many, spread- 
ing into a rose, rather fleshy, firm, spatulately or ob- 
ovately oblong, loosely and faintly serrate with a few white 
glandular toothlets, pubescently fringed but otherwise 
smooth, outer ones pressed flat to the ground, largest 2-3 
inches long and about 3 of an inch broad ; nerves thickish, 
pale, varicose at the under surface. Scape round, green, 
smooth, a span high, nearly upright, with a few scattered 
leaflets near the bottom. Raceme simple, loosely many- 
flowered ; flowers pinkish, scattered, lower ones wider 
apart, recurvedly spreading, about 4 of an inch long: pe- 
dicles upright, close-pressed, shorter than the flower, round, 
robust, with one bracte at their base of the same length, 
lanceolate, somewhat toothed, gibbous and wrinkled below, 
and two smaller opposite ones about their middle. Germen 
inferior, green, turbinate, shorter than the calyx, bilocular, 
many-seeded, surmounted by a green glandular crown. 
Calyx continuous with the germen, 5-leafletted, green, 
nearly three times shorter than the corolla ; leaflets spread- 
ing, wide apart upwards, linear and taper-pointed, glan- 
dularly serrate, with a paler midrib, the two hinder ones 
rather wider apart from the whole way up. Corolla 5-pe- 
talled, irregular, inserted round the bottom of the calyx; 
petals of one length, ligulate, taper-pointed, convolute at 
the top, converging half way into a deep red tube nar- 
rowly opened down the front, gibbous at the back and 
hairy on the inside, from thence spreading into a paler 
purple spotted bilabiate smooth limb; upper lip 3-lobed,. 
convergent ; lower 2-lobed, divaricate. Stamens even with 
