- the fame fhape with thefe but rather longer, fmaller, more 
acute, with a narrower unguis and not fo deeply divided from 
its lateral ones, which are {patulate, much the narroweft, with 
oblong laminz and furnifhed on each fide the bafe of their 
ungues with a tuberculated, fubcryftalline, glandular excre- 
{cence ; parts of fruétification accumbent to and concealed by 
the upper fegment. Flowers exquifitely fragrant with a {cent - 
of the perfume called Eau de Miel, or, as it appears to others, 
of Balm, of a greenifh grey colour with fomething of livid 
hue and brown ftripes. 
Our drawing of this very rare and fingular vegetable was 
taken at Mr. Wooprorp’s, who received the bulbs this 
Spring from the Cape. To all appearance it is equally hardy 
and of as eafy culture as. any of its congeners from the fame 
country ; many fpecimens flowered together in the above 
coe and fhewed fome flight variety both in fize and 
colour. j 
The fanciful appellation of viperatus, beftowed by. old 
Pruxenet, and which we firft thought might have been 
ae by the chequered, brownifh appearance of the flowers 
ome of its varieties, now appears to us more probably to have 
_ been taken from the form of its flowers, which (efpecially as 
reprefented in his own figure) do bring to mind the pofition 
of the head and appearance of the jaws of the fnake when 
raifing itfelf for defence againft its enemy and hiffing, in which 
flate we often feé them reprefented ‘in ‘cuts accompanying 
natural hiftory.’ GO Jy ee 3 
