viz. Wacuenvorria thyr/ifora, Thunb. WacuenporFia 
paniculata, Thunb. Wacuennorrta hirfuta, Thunb. Wa- 
CHENDORFIA brevifolia, Soland. MSS; the WacuwenporFia 
tenella and graminea of the former author being entirely un- 
known to us except from the fhort and vague fpecific charac- _ 
ters in his Prodromus. Our prefent.fpecies feems chiefly to — 
differ from paniculata in having hairy ‘leaves, a more graci- 
lefcent and taller ftem, which is alfo reddifh brown and not 
green as in that, its branches more divaricate, the two upper 
lateral fegments of its corolla more contiguous, and its flowers 
when clofed forma flenderer and more compa& column; we ~ 
might add, that the incumbent anthers are fhorter and rounder, | 
but as this difference efcaped us in the living plant and was 
obferved only in the drawings it is lefs to be depended on. 
Root leaves oblong Janceolate g3—4 about 3— 4 inches high, 
Stem about three times their length, Segments traverfed lon- 
gitudinally on the outfide by a brown hairy fillet, outer upper 
one wholly brown and pubefcent outwards. Flowers, quite — 
fcentlefs, open in fucceflion, clofe towards evening; expand — 
in the month of July, We have never obferved the fix — 
fiamens mentioned by fome authors and figured in one {pecies — 
Breynius, nor the rudiments of any more than the ufual 
>. The genus is remarkable in this natural order for its 
inferior corolla, and is perhaps one of its conneéting links to 
the hexandrous liliaceous plants; in the habit of its leaves it 
approaches Basrana, in that of the flower and capfule it 
comes nearer to Cranerra. If BurMan’s figure is atten- 
tively examined, it will be found to come nearer to this than — 
' paniculata ; the lower leaves not being feen nor defcribed it — 
is impoffible to be fo certain as we could defire; the plant was — 
only- known to Burman by a drawing taken at the Cape, 
from which his engraving was made. Introduced amongft us 
by Mr. Wixziams, Nurferyman at Turnham-Green, who 
received the bulbs three or four years back from the Cape. 
Requires the. fame treatment as Ix1a and other Cape 
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