honour that Science can bestow, and to whom the South 
African Botanist in particular is under great obligations. 
Through his means many new plants have already been 
disseminated in Europe, and many more may be expected 
from the constant exertions he is making to procure bulbs 
and seeds from the most remote parts of the colony. Harv. 
Descr. Root (?). Root-leaves distichous, six to eight 
inches long by an inch wide, numerous, patent, ensi- 
formi-ligulate, somewhat acute, flexuose, rigid, glabrous, 
bright green. Scape erect, glabrous, filiform, two feet 
and more high. Flowers umbellate,—when in bud, droop- 
ing,—afterwards patent and erect. Umbel simple, about 
eight-flowered. Spatha two-valved : valves ovate, acute, 
membranaceous, sphacelate ; the exterior large, and equal- 
ling the peduncle in length. Peduncles one to two inches 
long, slender, filiform. Exterior Perianth of one piece, in- 
ferior, patent: tube short, half an inch long, its length 
about equalling the breadth, obtusely angular, gibbous at 
the base, greenish-purple, or green with purple streaks; the 
limb six-partite, its segments ovate, obtuse, plane, as long 
as the tube, green with a purple margin, in a double series, 
the three inner ones a little longer and adnate with the sides 
of the inner perianth, the three outer free, s reading. Inner 
perianth forming a crown to the mouth se the tube, thick, 
fleshy, yellow, a little shorter than the outer, mouth trian- 
gular, three-lobed : lobes emarginate, or obsoletely biden- 
tate. Iilaments none (or rather they are adnate with the 
tube of the perianth.) Anthers six, sessile, in a double 
Series: the three superior inserted under the apices, the 
three inferior in the axils of the lobes, two-celled : cells 
bursting longitudinally. Ovary oval, glabrous, marked 
with resinous dots, obsoletely six-grooved, three-celled. 
Ovules numerous: Style erect; cylindrical, about equal in 
length with the germen: Stigma subcapitate, truncate. 
Smell strong, resembling that of Onion. W. H. Harvey. 
No apology, we trust, is necessary for representing this 
and another very pretty species shortly to be figured, of 
TULBAGHIA, as we are quite sure the Baron von Lupwie will 
have pleasure in introducing them to our collections. 
hah 1. Flower cut open. 2, Pistil. 3. Section of the Ovary :—mag- 
nified. 
