of this Magazine, as well as in the splendid figure given in 
the Hortus Schcenbrunensis, appear in both cases to haye 
been affected by the plants having been unnaturally drawn 
up by heat, so as to assume an altogether different appear- 
ance. Repouré’s figure, on the other hand, is highly 
characteristic. We are indebted at the Glasgow Botanic 
Garden for our bulbs to Baron Lupwie, a nobleman resident 
at the Cape of Good Hope, where he generously devotes his 
time and his fortune to the promotion of Botany and Horti- 
culture, particularly with the view of rendering service to 
the colony by the introduction of useful plants. To Europe 
he has, with the greatest liberality, communicated many 
rare South African plants, and has enriched our gardens 
with several new or little known species. 
Descr. Bulb elongated, covered with dark brown coats. 
Leaves arising from the bulb, the lowermost ones almost 
ovate and scarcely at all contracted at the base, the rest 
gradually becoming more elongated, very broadly lanceo- 
late, and patent, acute, glaucous and waved, especially at 
the margin, faintly striated, beneath having a rather con- 
spicuous thick cosia, the base attenuated, and in the upper 
leaves especially, forming a long sheath. Scape ten inches 
to a foot high: bearing a dense raceme of flowers, erect in 
the bud, altogether pendent when fully expanded, of a red- 
dish colour marked with paler spots ; each segment with a 
little white spot at the point; the limb purple: Filament 
curved, arising from the middle of the tube: Anthers) ob- 
long, yellow. Germen oblong, green, six-angled: style as 
long as the perianth, curved: stigma acute. 
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» Fig. 1, Flower, 2. The same cut through vertically :—magnified. 
