4—6 or even more, alternate, diftich, oblong-lanceolate, re- 
curved, fmooth and fomewhat fhining with a middle longitu- 
dinal furrow, the upper ones ovate-lanceolate, fheathing the 
1—8 flowered umbel by the finus formed of their cowled 
bafes; peduncles hid by the leaves, one-flowered, about an 
inch long, equal, thick, triquetra!, attenuated downwards. 
Corolla terminal, fomewhat herbaceous, petals campanulately — 
radiating from the crown of the peduncles; ungues thick, 
flefhy, compreffedly columnar; lamina fubmembranous, ftreak- 
ed, incurved at their fummits, and fubgibbous ‘ outwards, — 
rolling inwards they embrace the bafes of the filaments’which — 
are brown, tumid, and ftand on the upper extremity of the 
ungués, incurved, round, the length of lamine and ftyles; 
anthers linear-oblong, purplifh brown above the points of — 
the petals; pollen yellow. Styles patent upwards. Stigmas — 
fmall brown points. Seeds about the fize of thofe of muitard. — 
An inhabitant of the Cape, to be treated as a gteenhoule — 
plant. Flowers in February. : ; 
Our drawing was taken at the garden of Mr. Wooprord, 
Vauxhall, a never-failing fource of rare aad new plants. G. 
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