juft below the umbel, ufually throwing out two other flowering 

 branches from the fame part of the ftem. Flowers 10 — -15 in 

 an umbel. Involucrum confiding of as many leaves as there 

 are flowers, one being fituated at the hafe of each peduncle, 

 about one-third of an inch long, fubulate, hairy. Peduncles 

 nearly an inch and half long. Calyx confiding of five lanceo- 

 late fegments nearly equal, four of them ufually reflexed, hairy. 

 Petals buff-coloured, narrow, fomewhat undulated, dilating 

 gradually from the bafe towards the apex ; the two uppermoft 

 fomewhat the longeft and largeft, and very prettily ftreaked 

 with crimfon. Five fertile Itamens. Anthers inclining to 

 orange. Stigmas crimfon. 



We have followed the Hortus Kewenfis in confidering the 

 pinnatum of Lin tue. us and ajiragalifolhim of Jacquin as the 

 fame fpecies. There are, however, remarkable varieties, and 

 future obfervations may perhaps feparate fome of them into 

 diftincl: fpecies. 



Our figure was taken from a plant, which flowered in De- 

 cember 1798, in the Marquis of Blandford's collection, at 

 White- Knights, near Reading, and was raifed there from 

 Cape feeds, fent by Lord Macartney. Introduced to the 

 Kew garden, by Mr. Masson, ten years before. It is of the 

 tenderer kind, and, like other tuberous rooted fpecies, is im- 

 patient of water, and not eafily propagated, except by feeds, 

 which it rarely or never produces with us. In ftrong plants 

 the bulb will however branch out at top into two, three, or 

 more diftina heads ; by dividing thefe with caution, fo that 

 each part fhall have fome fibres to it, and not giving them too 

 much water when planted, Mr. Dowdall, at that time 

 Gardener to the Marquis, told Mr. Curtis, that this rare 

 fpecies might be increafed. 



