iince been feparately described and figured under their proper 

 names by Jacquin in Plant, rar. Icon, we adopt his titles for 

 Thunberg's fecond and third varieties, referving the original 

 one of villo/a for the firft, as Jacquin has a!fo done, but 

 without having been aware that his obliqua and fobolifera had 

 been included by Thunberg in it; this we do both with a 

 view to prevent any confufion from not conforming to names 

 made more generally known by fuch plates as Jacouin's, as 

 alfo to avoid introducing a new fpecific appellation unne- 

 ceflarily. 



Root confiding of feveral bulb-bearing flefhy rootftocks 

 not annually reproduced, about the bignefs of walnuts, convex 

 above, growing together below, as they are produced, into 

 a thick, flattifh, folid, knobbed, irregular mafs ; from which 

 the herb fprings tuftwife. Leaves radical from fix to eight 

 inches long, half an inch broad at the bafe, broad-fubulate, 

 channelled, carinate, fhaggily villous, receiving a greyifh ap- 

 pearance from the villi, which are thick, longifh, and foft ; 

 t'capes feveral in fucceffion, ftrift, flat, hirfute, about the 

 length of the leaves, terminated by a 4 — 6 or more flowered, 

 bracleate, diftich, fubfaftigiate raceme of one-flowered pe- 

 duncles. Flowers bright-yellow, fcentlefs, upright. Petals lan- 

 ceolate, hairy outwards, and fubherbaceous, inner ones rather 

 narrower and lefs pubefcent. Filaments fubulate, concrete at 

 their bafes with the glandular tumid bafe of the ftyle that 

 covers the germen ; anthers ovate-fagittate, upright, not {o 

 long in proportion as in /errata and jlcllatct> but coming nearer 

 to thofe of ereHa. Stigma ovate-oblong, three-lobedly-trigonal, 

 lobes decurrent, (lightly prominent, channelled, with pubefcent 

 edges, about the length of the ftyle, which is round and 

 thickifh. 



Flowers during molt part of the Summer, of as eafy culture 

 as /errata, which fee; propagated by dividing its rootftocks 

 with a knife, and need not be fhifted for feveral years, not 

 indeed till it has filled the veffel in which it may be ; not 

 uncommon; we never faw it feed; introduced into Kew 

 Gardens, by Mr. Masson, in 1774, from the Cape. 



Our drawing was taken at Meffrs. Grim woods and 

 Wykes's Nurfery at Kenfington. G. 



