have been enabled to add the above chara@er from thence, which — 
‘will affift confiderably in diftinguifhing it from Ix1a, Tri- | 
TONSA, Sparaxtis, Watsonia, Antuoryza, .and the 
Cape Grapioii. We can fee no caufe for making two fpe- 
cies of the above plants,.as Jacquin has done, attributing to — 
the one a three-valved, to the other a two-valved fpathe, , 
when in faé& their fpathes differ only in fize. and are as ufual 
in the genus. = 
-Bulb-tuber ovate, far acuminate, covered with feveral thin, 
dark-brown, membranous tunics. Leaves plicate, hirfute, — 
except their petiole-like bafes, which are fmooth and naked. — 
Scape reclined, very fhort, not reaching beyond the above- — 
mentioned bafes, round, hirfuie. Spike diftich. Spathes im- 
bricate, hirfute, ftreaked, outer valve broad-fubulate, con- 
volute-concave, green with a brown fphacelate tip. Flowers 
about four inches or more in length, ‘5—z or more in number, 
without any external pubéfcence, generally reaching fomewhat 
higher than the leaves, upright; tube long, 2—g times the 
length of the f{pathes, filiform, upwards gradually enlarged 
into a fhort turbinate faux. Limb unequal, irregular from — 
campanulate fubringently and recurvedly patent, 3—4 times — 
fhorter than the tube; Segments equal in length, oblong, un- — 
Quiculate, flat, acute: the upper deepeft, feparated from 
each other, diftantly diverging: uppermoft one the broadeft | 
and fomewhat lefs patent: lower ones converging, their centre. 
one the finalleft and not fo deeply feparated from its fide ones, | 
~ as the reft are from each other: the ungues of thefe lower-_ 
moft ones form a kind of inflated throat; the three outer — 
egments, viz. the two upper fide ones, and the lower middie | 
one, are precifely of the fame fhape, mucronate and fome- — 
thing the narroweft. ‘Tube violet, limb a pale dull flraw | 
colour on the infide, three lower fegments ftained with @ © 
‘blood-red fubhaftately triangular mark, Organs adfcendent, 
reaching to about the top of the ungues, anthers dark-coloured, | 
fligmas the colour of the limb and about the length of the 
anthers. Capfule quite fmooth, naked. See 
____ Found by Tuunsere at the Cape of Good Hope, in ote 
‘diftri& of Swartland. Introduced into Kew Gardens by 
Mr. "Masson, in 1774. oe ee, 
. Our drawing was made at Meffrs. Grimwoop and WykES$ | 
Nurfery. Ivis eafily propagated both by feed and offsets. 
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