acuminate, convolute, feVeral times fhorter than die peduncles, 

 quickly withering. The three outer petals of the corolla 

 rotate, linear-oblong, flattifh, in.curvedly hollowed at their 

 tips and thickened, cohering at their bafes beneath the inner 

 ones, which are upright, clofely converging into an oblong 

 fubventricofe cup which envelops the parts of fructification, 

 afFording the appearance of a flower within a flower ; thefe 

 petals are broader than the outer ones, oval-oblong, concave, 

 terminated by an inflected, fubreniform, thickly glandular ap- 

 pendage, pubefcent outwards, and under which the alternate 

 fertile anthers are concealed ; filaments flat, thong-lhaped, 

 about equal to the inner petals, the three that (land upon the 

 outer ones of which are fterile and thicker; ferule ones dilated 

 at the bafe and convolute ; anthers many times fhorter than 

 thefe, fmall, yellow; piftil about equal to the corolla, forming 

 a prifmatic column fomewhat obconic or vertical ; ftyles very 

 fhort, making with the three hirfute concrete ftigmas a tri- 

 gonally clubbed acute {haft about the length of the germen. 



Found by Thunberg at the Cape growing in company 

 ■with Albuca major in fandy waftes near Saldanha Bay, where 

 it ufually attains the height of a foot. 



The drawing was taken at the Nurfery of MeflYs. GrimwooO 

 and Wykes, Kenfington ; it fhould be kept with the hardier 

 Cape bulbs in the greenhoufe planted in a fmall pot of light 

 fandy peat-earth and the root protected from too much moifture 

 while at reft. According to the Hortus Kewenfis, it was cul- 

 tivated by Miller in 1768. Dr. Dryander's fpecimen 

 had all the filaments fterile, in ours only the alternate ones 

 were fo. It approaches very near to AtsvcAfragrans ; but 

 is quite fcentlefs. G. 



CORRIGENDA. 



No. 711, 1. 15, pro " in" lege " ex." 



No. 712, p. 2, 1.6, after M tribe" add, * c ever imported into Europe at 

 one time." 



No. 713, 1. 22, for " nodules" read <{ rofules." 



•In the plate of Hypoxis eredct, No. 710, a ftamen has been accidentally- 

 omitted, as five only are there Ihewn inftead of fix ; — and in that of Atrageke 

 capenjis, No. 716, the hairs on two of the external petals have been omitted by 

 the engraver. 



