has been cultivated in these Gardens under the name of 7rztoma 
Uvaria,. Gawler. The figure, indeed, of Mr. Gawler, above 
quoted, is so indifferent, that we can well excuse its not being 
easily recognized, and have no hesitation in offering a better one. 
We almost regret, but we believe it is only an act of justice, to 
change a long-established name for one, no doubt, overlooked by 
the author of Zritoma; but we think it equally a duty to retain 
the Linnzan specific name, for the change of which there can be 
no reason at all: a name, too, given by the very old botanists. 
Although a native of the Cape, no plant can be more hardy nor 
more easily cultivated, and assuredly none more worthy of a place 
in every garden. Our specimen here represented is no unusually 
fine one: on the contrary, it becomes larger and handsomer as 
the inflorescence advances ; for then the lower flowers are pressed 
down close upon the scape, and become entirely of a full yellow 
colour (as admirably represented by Redouté), while the upper 
and less expanded blossoms are of the finest red. The species 
was introduced to our gardens 150 years ago, and yet only now 
seems to attract special notice. 
Dzscr. The /eaves grow in dense tufts (and arise from tubers 
which are large and flattened beneath, and by means of which the 
plant increases abundantly); they are very long, three to four 
feet, and narrow, subulate, that is tapering to a very much 
_ elongated, slender point; for nearly the whole length they are 
somewhat conduplicate, so that a transverse section resembles 
the letter V; but the apex is very sharply alato-triquetrous. The 
margins and keel ‘are cartilaginous and rough (to the touch), or 
minutely serrulated, especially the keel. In these serratures the 
species differs essentially from Zritoma media, Gawl., as well as 
from the Zritoma Burchellii of Dr. Lindley. Scape two to four 
feet high, terminated by a dense bracteolated spike of very nu- 
merous drooping flowers, at first bright red, then tipped with 
yellow, finally wholly yellow. The form of the spike is ovato- 
cylindrical, singularly contracted at the base when the flowers 
are past, for then the blossoms are pressed close to the stem, 
forming a kind of handle to the spike. Perianth slightly curved, 
infundibuliform, six-toothed or six-cleft at the apex: the teeth 
or lobes moderately patent; the tube obscurely six-angled. Sfa- 
mens exserted, unequal. Fi/aments inserted at the base of the 
perianth. Anthers oblong. Ovary ovate, three-furrowed, three- 
celled. Style rather longer than the stamens. Stigma obtuse. 
_ Fig. 1. Figure of an entire plant, very much reduced. 2. Flower :—natur al 
size. 3. Flower laid open. 4. Ovary. 5. The same cut through transversely :-— 
all but figures 1 and 2 magnified. 
