As yet a folitary {pecies, nor have we in the many fpeci- 
mens we have feen ever obferved it to vary even in colour. © 
Flowers {centlefs, 2—6 on each peduncle-like branchlet, which 
Jaft, in the archedly-flexuofe curvatures and one-ranked man- 4 
ner of bearing their flowers, refemble the rachis of Ix1a — 
Secunda. ee 
Found by Tuunsere at the Cape of Good Hope, on — 
the Groenekloof hills, and near Bergrivier ; introduced into — 
Kew Gardens, by Mr. Masson in 1787. The generic name — 
we have derived from pzaas black and coaipx a globe, in allu- — 
fion to the colour and form of the bulblets produced on the 3 
ftem, as mentioned and figured by Jacquin. In the capillary — 
tenuity and elaftic tremuloufnefs of its branchlets it reminds — : 
us of the quaking-grafs, Briza. 
Our drawing was taken at the Nurfery of Meffrs.. Wrxes 
-and Grimwoop, Kenfington. Requires the treatment of the 
other Cape Enfatw. Propagates plentifully by feed and bulbss. 
but the leaves are apt if kept in a pit to be eafily bitten and 
deftroyed by the froft, and though this does not kill the plant 
it weakens it very much; to make it produce the bulblets 
mentioned by Jacguin, and to have it in perfeétion, we fhould 
think the dry ftove would be the beft place to grow it in. G, 
