dilating upwards : border 4-fid : fegments entire, ovate, acute. 

 Petals* 4, very nearly the fize and (hape of the fegments of 

 the calyx, but generally jagged at the tip. Stamens 8: fila- 

 ments fliort, attached to the upper part of the tube : anthers 4 

 within and 4 without the tube. Gcrmen fuperior, globular. 

 Style the length of the tube. Stigma round, hifpid. 



From a careful confideration of the defcription in the 

 Mantiffa, we were perfuaded" that this plant is the real Gnidia 

 fimplex of Linnaeus, however different from the one ufually 

 known by that name in our nurferies and figured as fuch in 

 the Botanift's Repofitory ; and a comparifon with the fpecimens 

 in the Bankfian Herbarium has confirmed our opinion. In no 

 other known fpecies are the flowers in every part yellow. 



In tranfcribing the defcription from the MantifTa, where it 

 is faid the ftems are roughened with tubercles from the veftiges 

 of the leaves, Reich ard has by fome accident added the figure 

 4 after tubrrculis^ and notwithstanding the fentence is thus 

 made unintelligible, the leaves having before been faid to be 

 fcattered, this blunder has been copied both by Willdenow 

 and Martyn. 



This pretty little fhrub, a native of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 has much the habit of Struthiola^^, and requires a 

 fimilar treatment, being a hardy greenhoufe plant. Its flowers, 

 which appear in Auguft, are without fcent. We received it 

 from Mr. Loddiges of Hackney under the name of Gnidia 

 aurea. 



We follow the language of Linn^us in naming the parts of the flowers ; 

 according to Jussieu all this family has no corolla, what are here called 

 petals he confidersas fquamous appendages. Linnjeus having ftyled the tubulat 

 part of the flower in the reft of the order the corolla, his language would have 

 been more uniform if he had retained that name for the fame part in this genus, 

 and applied that of neftarium to what are here called petals, as he has done to. $9 

 analogous parts in Struthiola, &c, f 



