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Lachenalia Ouadricolor. Four- 

 Coloured Lachenalia. 



Oafs and Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia, 



Generic Character. 



Cor. 6-partita : Petala g-exteriora difformia. Capf. 3-alata ; 

 loculamenta polyfperma. Sem. globofa receptaculo affixa. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



LACHENALIA quadricolor : foliis binis lineari lanceolatis 

 canalicular furfum explanatis, flonbus dil- 

 tantibus pedunculatis pendulis : petalis exte- 

 rioribus dimidio brevioribus. 



LACHENALIA quadricolor., J acq. Icon. rar. 2. t. 388. Andr. 

 Bot.Rep. i 5 /. 148. 



LACHENALIA pendula j3. Willd. Sp. PL torn. 1. p. 181. 



We have no hefitation in pronouncing this to be a very 

 diftintt fpecies from Lachenalia pendula, of which Willd- 

 enow confiders it only a variety. It appears indeed to us to 

 have greater affinity with Lachenalia tricolor, though fuffi- 

 ciently different from that alfo. The flowers chiefly differ from 

 thofe of pendula, in having longer peduncles, the outer petals 

 much fhorter, and the inner more fpreading at the mouth ; 

 they are alfo more diftant, growing alternately on the fcape, 

 which is weaker. The leaves are much longer, narrower, and 

 more channelled, one of them longer than the other, and, as. 

 Jacquin remarks, ercd at firft, but reclined from above the 

 middle ; they come out from the bulb fiftular and fplit °P en 

 as they advance, and thofe of the young offsets not opening 

 at all, have very much the appearance of a different plant 

 growing in the fame pot. 



In brilliancy of colours it far excels all its congeners. 



Our drawing was taken at Mr. Woodford's, Vauxhall, 

 where it flowered the firft time in February 1801, from bulbs. 

 imported from the Cape the preceding year. 



