A native of the Cape of Good Hope, where it.was found | 
by Mr. Masson, whofe fpecimens are to be feen in the 
Bankfian Herbarium. Not enumerated in the Hortus Kewen/fis. 
The drawing was made from an imported plant fent us by 
Mr. Wittiams, of Turnham-Green, who is, we believe, the 
only perfon that has it in this country. 
Descr. Root a tunicated Bulb, about the fize of acherry; - 
leaves three to fix, three to four inches high, fubereét, very nar- 
row, linear, thick, flefhy, concave inwards, outwards convex, 
purple-red at their bafe; Scape coloured, roundifh, at laft 
nearly twice fhorter than thofe; raceme few-many flowered, 
capitately heaped; pedicles adpreffed, upright, fhorter than _ 
corolla, longer than the {mall 4rades ; corol/a turbinately cam- — 
panulate, hexapetaloufly parted, of a palifh rofe-colour, with 
fix deep violet ftreaks, fcentlefs ; /egments about half an inch — 
long, oblong-lanceolate, recurved upwards, converging down- 
wards cylindrically, bafe narrow, gibbofely angular; inner — 
fegments unguiculate with a fomewhat broader lamina; /famens 
{etiform, divergently upright, alternately fhorter, about a third — 
fhorter than fegments to which they adhere for about a third or 
fourth of their length; anthers oblong, fhort, upright ; fayle — 
upright, flender, attenuated, equal to ftamens; /fgma a glan- — 
dularly roughened blunted point ; germen round-ovate, tri- _ 
gonal ; capfule membranous, fcariofe, tranfparent, ovate, — 
trifulcate, fharply triquetral, lobed, pointed ; /eeds feveral, — 
globular, black. A greenhoufe plant; blooms in the autumn. Gas 
SPECIES. | 
cist ies Supra tab. 991. 
enfifolia. Supra tab. 554.\  y.a: = 
uniflora. Hob. Bake } diftinclene ? | 
anguftifolia. Supra tab. 736. : 
undulata. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 28. (pufilla. Herb. Bankf. ?) 
echinata. Willd. 1. c. ee 
pauciflora, Dryand. MSS. Muf. Bankf. quo fpec. <: jae. 
puftulata. Supra tab. 642. - 
muricata. Supra tab. 642. 
latifolia. Supra tab. 848. a (fanguinea. Facq. Ic. Schaub. 4- 1.) 
coronata. acq. Hort. Schenb, 4. tab. 
obovata. Facqg. 1. ¢. tab. 
longifolia. Facq. |. ¢. tab. 
lanceefolia. ‘facq. 1. c. tab. 
cordata. (Facq. 1. c. tab, 
grandifolia. modis. (latifolia, Facq. I. ¢. tab.) 
Oxzs. Massonta nodicarpa C. F. Gaertn. Sem, v. 3. p. 13+ * 18 
Sf: 2. nec hujus generis, fed MORES fpecies. G. 
Anne cundiea Facquiniane Jpecies mutuo fatis inter fe diftintte ? G. 
