Tas. 4817. 
- HYPOXIS tatiro3ta. 
Broad-leaved Hypoxis. 2 vee 
Nat. Ord. Hyroxiprm.—Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Perigonium corollinum, tubo cum ovario connato, limbo sexpartito 
plano persistente. Stamina 6, limbi laciniis mediante disco epigyno inserta. 
Ovarium inferum, triloculare. Ovula plurima, biseriata, amphitropa. Stylus 
liber; stigmata 3, angulis styli adnata, rarius distincta. Capsula limbo emarcido 
coronata, trilocularis, evalvis. Semina plurima.—Herbee perennes, habitu Cureu- 
liginis, floribus spatha bivalvi bracteeformi v. subglumacea exceptis. Endl. 
Hypoxis Jatifolia; tubere globoso solitario, foliis lato-lanceolatis acuminatis 
glabris basi vaginatis demum interioribus longissimis, racemis plurifloris, — 
bracteis ciliatis, ovario turbinato. 
In the spring of 1854 some bulb-like tubers were, along with — 
many other rare plants, brought to us by Captain Garden, then — 
of the 46th Regiment, from Natal. The tubers in question threw 
out leaves with the habit of those of some Orchis, particularly of 
our Orchis hircina, but more numerous and more sheathing at 
the base: from the axils of the leaves the flower-stalks arose, 
bearing spikes, or rather racemes, of moderately-large yellow 
flowers, having all the character of those of Hypozxis, to which 
genus I consequently refer it, notwithstanding the dissimilarity 
in the foliage. In this foliage there was a further peculiarity, 
namely, that after flowering (in which state 1t 1s here represented) 
the upper or inner leaves continued elongating till they attained 
two feet in height, giving the mature foliage a very different ap- 
pearance from that which it had in the flowering state of the 
plant. Its nearest affinity is probably with 7. od/usa, Burch. 
in Bot. Reg. f. 159; and the flowers are there equally large. 
Drsor. Tuber bulbiform, the size of a small turnip, rounded, 
obscurely concentrically striated, shaggy at the top, from which 
arises the cluster of Zeaves: of these, the lower are squamiform 
upwards, gradually becoming larger, and which in the flowering 
state are about six inches long, broad-lanceolate, acuminated, 
MBER 1sT, 1854. 
