channelled, from broadifh, fheathing, fubventricofe bafes, 

 gradually attenuated upwards, rather longer than the fcape, 

 upper ones cauline; fcape firnple, fubcomprefled, from three 

 to nine inches high ; fpike itraight, feffile, fparfe, many- 

 flowered, clofifh ; Rachis but Uighdy flexuofe, interruptedly 

 angled, indented where the flowers lit ; tube very fhort, hexa- 

 gonoufly feamed, 3 — 4 times fhorter than the limb ; fegments 

 ftellate, linear- fubulate, flat when firft expanded, afterwards 

 involutely margined, purple with a darker .edge ; ftigmjs firnple, 

 obfolete ; ftyles flender, fubulate-triquetral, becoming beaked 

 continuations to the loculaments of the capfule. Anthers yellow* 

 Flowers without fmell. 



Found at the Cape, by Masson, on the hills near Groene- 

 Kloof; and probably introduced by him into Kew-Gardens i 

 where it may have been deemed a variety of Melanthium 

 tnonopetaliim. Requires the treatment of Ixia. 



Our drawing was taken from a bulb imported from the 

 Cape by Meffrs. Grim wood and Wykes, Kenfington. G* 



CORRIGENDA. 



No. 581, 1. 24, pro " hyalinis" " hyalina." 



No. 593, 1. 22, pro " Iridi" " Iride." 



No. 685, p. 2, 1. 2, for " confidentially" *' confidingly.'* 



Eod. 1. 40, for " but is" " and is." 



Eod. I. 41, dele »• alfo," and for " fouthemmoft" read «' foutheafternmoft.* 



No. 686, 1. 17, for " Clift :" » Cliff;" 



