this natural order. We received it likewife from Mr. Woop-. 
FORD, of Spring-Grove. A native of the Cape of Good Hope; 
fhould be kept in the greenhoufe with other bulbs from the | 
fame country and planted in a fmall pot, with a mixture of 
three-fourths peat earth to one of loam; blooms in the 
autumn. : 
Descr. Bulb tunicated, oblong-ovate, about the fize ofa — 
pigeon’s egg, bafe umbilicately hollowed; /eaves two to four, — 
lanceolate, varying much in the fpotting, having however the — 
flains always round, fometimes very ftrongly marked and thick. 
fet, at others thinly fprinkled and faded, fometimes appearing 
on one furface only, at others on both ; /fem at firft higher than 
the leaves, more or lefs coloured by clofe and often confluent — 
blood-red dots ; raceme lax, few-manyflowered ; braéfes fmall 
ovate, acuminate, decurrent, membranous ; corol/a an inch of 
more in length, trigonal-cylindric, fubbilabiately patent, pem- 
dulous, feveral times longer than pedicles, receiving a carmine 
hue from numerous thickfet dots of that colour, which are fpread 
over a tranfparently whitifh ground ; /egments diftin& quite t0 
their bafe, outer a fourth fhorter, adpreffedly incumbent on the 
inner, cuneate-oblong, concave, thicker, fubcalycine, uppet 
one the longeft of the three truncately retufe and glandulary 
thickened at the top; inner ones obcuneate-oblong, patulows 
upwards, convolutely concave downwards, lower one rather 
fhorter and fomewhat differently fhaped; tamens fixed 
the bottom of the corolla, to which they are about eq! 
compreffed-filiform, three upper a little the longeft, diverging 
lower ones deflex, converging, refting on the loweft fegments 
anthers reddifh, oblong-fagittate ; yle flender, deflex, protru 
confiderably beyond the ftamens, attenuated ; /figma obfol 
when magnified appearing blunted-triquetral and glandulaty 
pubefcent ; germen pale, ovate, trifulcately three-lobed, trigona 
lobes pulvinate. pei 
We cannot think puxata diftin& from the prefent fpec! 
(8) is the handfomeft variety of the three ; but fometimes 
generates into (2). G, = 
