Eafily diftinguifhed from Uvaria by its fmaller glaucous 

 leaves, the edges and keel of which are not prickly ferrate 

 as in that ; from fumila again by its leaves being not fo 

 fmall nor fo linear, the corolla neither cyathiformly cam- 

 panulate nor fo fhort. Our plant is nearly as much larger 

 than the latt as it is fmaller than the firft ; hence we have 

 called it media, farmentofa being abfurdly erroneous and repens 

 not exa£t, befides applying equally to the three fpecies. 



Introduced, as we are told, into this country by Mr. 

 Williams, Nurferyman at Turnham-Green, who has many 

 very rare Cape liliaceous plants. The item is higher than 

 the leaves, and fometimes attains three feet, but more com- 

 monly does not exceed one and a half. The flowers are 

 produced early in the Winter ; have no fcent. 



It has flood in the open ground with us during the three 

 laft Winters; but we have always cut off the flowering ftem 

 and placed it in water within doors ; the other parts of the 

 plant have endured the weather without protection, and 

 grown vigoroufly the following Summer. 



It is more ufually treated as a hardy green-houfe plant, 

 and kept in deep pots of light earth. Propagates very fafl by 

 fuckers. G, 



