the upper one of which is flat and not curled; flowers 5—7, 
uprfht, fecund, fcentlefs. Spathes two-valved, fubherbaceous, 
very {meoth, hot nerved or ftreaked, four times fhorterthan 
the tube, outer valve fphacelate and brown at the tip. “Tube 
three times longer than the border, flightly curved, from a 
narrow filiform bafe gradually widened upwards. Limb fix- 
parted, unequal, irregular; fegments equal in length, conni- 
vent downwards, upwards fubringently patent; three upper 
ones largeft and more diverging, oblong-obovate, obtufe, un- 
guiculate, flat, all of one, colour, pinkifh white within, and 
' deeper pink without, the middie the broadeft; three lower 
ones equal, ligulate, obtufe, fubventricofely or gibboufly con- 
nivent, propendently patent upwards, the middle one fometimes 
rather the largeft of the three; ungues fubconvolutely concave 
ftained with purple inwards, having a longitudinal flripe of 
the fame colour above. Stigmas recurved, rather longer than 
the anthers, which are fagittate-linear and violet-coloured. 
Flowers in June; requires the treatment of its congeners, 
but is not quite fo free to blow; pedinata and frriata we have 
mever feen in any garden in this country ; the three feem 
-conneét this genus with Basrana, from which they differ in 
feed, fpathe, bulb, and habit. 
Found by Tuunsere at the Cape on the Rodefand-Hills | 
_ and Picketberg. Introduced into Kew Gardens by Mr. Mas 
son in 1787. — , TOGA 
Our drawing was taken at the Nurfery of Meffrs. Gat 
woop and Wyxes, Kenfington, where it flowered in great 
perfe&tion in June. G, | 
Nota. In Mora, Ixta, SPARAXIDE, TrirontA, B 
Lareyrousia, GEISSORHIZA, TRICHONEMATE, ME of 
ruta, AntHotyza, Watsonia et Graprozo, pafim PY 
_*© Bulbus et Bulb,” lege “ Bulbo-tuber et Bulb-tubere? 
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