triquetral, longer than the fegments, which are oblong, oval» 

 (lightly pointed, fomewhat concave, nearly equal, white on 

 the infide, with a twin cinnamon-coloured llain at the bale, on 

 the outfide ftreaked with the fame coloured veins, the three 

 outermoft moil fo. Filaments erect, longer than the anthers, 

 diftintt or fomewhat remote but not patent, forming a kind of 

 open-work column ; anthers fagittate, upright, fhort, brown. 

 Style as long or longer than the llan.ens; ftigmas revolute, 

 hanging over the anthers, from complicate explanate, pubef- 

 cently fringed, lucid. Expands about eight o'clock in the 

 morning, and continues open as long as the fun fhines upon 

 it. Quite fcentlefs. The younger Linn al us feems to have 

 confounded a variety of Gladiolus (our Lapeyrousia) 

 junceus with it, as the latter variety only of the plant he de- 

 fcribes applies to our fpecies. — Spathe and corolla bear a ftrong 

 frima facie refemblance to Ixi a falcaia. Found byTnuNBERO 

 on the hills round Cape-Town ; his figure is chara&eriftic. 



Our drawing was taken at the garden of George Hibbert, 

 Efq. Clapham (by whom it was introduced) where alone, we 

 believe, it is to be found in this country. 



Our fpecimen agrees in fize with the many dried fpontaneous 

 ones we have feen, and does not appear to have been the leaft 

 altered by cultivation. Propagates by offsets with the ufual 

 facility of its congeners, by which they will all foon become 

 very common, especially as they are of fuch eafy culture. 



Flowers in April and May. G. 



