fibres from all parts of its fur face. Leaves radical, from half 

 to near a foot long, long-fubulate, fmooth, channelled, carinate, 

 traverfed at the bottom of the channel by a iilvery waved or 

 rugofe (tripe reiembling that in the leaves of i,rocus t edged 

 ferrulately by minute diftant cartilaginous prickle-like teeth 

 •which point downwards. Scapes feverai in iucceffion, flat, in 

 general fhorter than their peduncle, which is lolitary, oner 

 flowered, roundifh, fiftular, iupported by two fmalliih fub- 

 ulate oppofite bractes fpringing from the j )ini that unites it to 

 its fcape, and after fructiheation has taken place are refractedly 

 recumbent. Flowers ftelJate, yellow within, green outwards, 

 fcentlefs. Petali linear-oblong, acute, fiat, twice longer than 

 the germen, three outer ones broader, longer, fubnmcronate, 

 and more deflected. Parts of fructification far fhorter than 

 the corolla, deep yellow, nearly equal ; anthers three times 

 longer than the filaments ; ftyle round, thickifh, three times 

 fhorter than the itigmas, which are cufpidate or fubfagittate, 

 pubefcent, and obconically divergent. Varies with tawny- 

 coloured corollas. 



Brought into Kew-Gardensfrom the Cape, by Mr. Masson, 

 in 1788; but we have never yet met with it in any other 

 collection than that at the Nurfery of Meffrs. Grim wood 

 and Wykes, who imported it this Summer from the Cape. 

 Blooms about July. 



Of eafy culture, requiring protection from froft, but no 

 artificial heat, a fmall pot of light fandy peat earth, and to be 

 kept dry while in a quiefcent itate. G. 



