Tas. 5803. 
VELLOZIA erxzeans. 
Natal Vellozia. 
Nat. Ord. VELLOzIEa.—HEXxANDRIA Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas, 5574.) 
VeLtozia elegans ; caule pedali gracili erecto, foliis ensiformibus racemosis 
carinato-complicatis multinervis acuminatis apices versus cartilagineo- 
serrulatis, scapis 3—5-floris, pedicellis valde elongatis filiformibus, ovario 
3-quetro glaberrimo, perianthii albi foliolis subequalibus oblongis obtusis 
demum excrescentibus viridibus, staminibus 6 subsessilibus, antheris 
linearibus obtusis, stylo brevi, stigmate oblongo-cylindraceo 6-sulcato 
obtuso, seminibus teretibus elongatis curvis. 
Vettozia elegans, Oliver MSS. ex Balfour in Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. v. ix. 
pp. 79 and 189. 
Ta.soria elegans, Balfour, l. c. 192, name only. 
Our first knowledge of this plant was derived from a spe- 
cimen brought from his garden by the Hon. H. Fox Talbot, 
F.R.S., to the Kew Herbarium, in 1866, and which was raised 
from seed procured either from the Cape or Madagascar, which 
Professor Oliver pronounced to be a Vellozia (identical with 
a Natal plant, Hypovis barbacenioides, Harv. MSS.), and the 
name V. elegans was proposed for it. 
A specimen, presented by Mr. Fox Talbot to the Edin- 
burgh Botanic Gardens, was next exhibited to the Botanical 
Society of that city by my friend Professor Balfour, as 
Vellozia elegans (see Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinb., ix. p. 79, Jan. 
1867). At a subsequent meeting (/. c. p. 189, 138th June), 
Dr. Balfour again exhibited this plant as V. Talbott, or, if it 
should prove a new genus, Zulbotia elegans. On a third occa- 
sion (/. c. p. 192, 11th July), he exhibited it as Zulbotia 
elegans, without a generic character, or pointing out its 
generic differences from Vellozia. Meanwhile it appears to 
have been overlooked that an African (Madagascar) genus of 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1869. 
