lucres Tome herbaceous, others becoming fphacelate. Corolla 

 fugacious, decaying by rolling parily inwards and partly 

 fpirally together, regular, nearly equal, hypocrateriformly 

 patent ; ungues very {mall, feveral times fhorter and narrower 

 than the lamina;, converging dole round the tubular bafe of 

 the ftamens, three quite within the others ; outer lamina? 

 cuneate-oblong, fubacute, inner rather fhorter, obovate-oblong; 

 all of" a bright yellow colour with a greenifh (tripe without, 

 Style the length of the ungues, feveral times fhorter than the 

 ftigmas, which are ftraight, radiately patent, with a fixfold 

 appearance from their being parted their whole length into 

 two narrow, flender, linear, lamellofely compreffed, divaricate 

 fegments, flightly hiant at their tips ; ftamens connate into a 

 round tube for the length of the ftvle and ungues, thence 

 parting into three adfeendently patent filaments about equal to 

 the ftigmas, furnifhed with largifh, oblong, incurved anthers. 

 Germen narrow oblong, triquetral, above the involucre. Cap- 

 fule coriaceo-membranous, a triquetral-oblong fhaft ; feeds 

 many, brown, compreffed, angular. 



Found by Tiiu nberg, at the Cape, near Berg-River, the 

 Twenty-Four-Rivers, Elephant's-River, and from Roode- 

 Sand to Hauteniquas-Land, in the greateft abundance ; and 

 when dreffed is ufed both by the Colonifts and Hottentots for 

 food. Mr. Barrow, in his very intelligent account of this 

 colony, mentions a fmall yellow Iris that furnifhes a root for 

 the table, not unlike a chefnut in fize and tafte ; the fmall 

 roots of which are called Uyntjes by the Dutch inhabitants; 

 and in another place he obferves, that a feafon is computed in 

 that country from the time that thefe roots are fit to eat, 

 which is called Uyntjes tyd y that they are eaten roafted, and 

 that they formerly conftituted a principal article of food among 

 the Hottentots. But whether he means our plant or the one 

 that is fuppofed by Thunberg to. be a yellow variety ojf 

 Mor£a edulis, Jupta No. 613, figured by Van Hazen in his 

 catalogue, and defcribed by De la Roche under the name 

 of Vieusseuxia fagax, we cannot determine from the above 

 description. 



Our drawing was taken at Mr. Woodford's, by whom the 

 bulb was imported this Summer from the Cape. It continues 

 a confiderable time in bloom, owing to its numerous fuccef- 

 fion of flowers, feveral of which generally blow at the fame 

 time ; has no fmell whatever, G. 



