by Mr. Masson, about 1788. It fhould be kept in the © 
greenhoufe and treated like other Cape Bulbs. eS 
Descr. Bulb folid, about an inch and half high, ovate- — 
pyramidal, flatted obliquely on one fide of the bafe, covered with — 
a fomewhat cruftaceous membrane like that of a tulip root; 
leaves oppofite, alternate, radical ones clofe, largett, channelled- 
lanceolate, far-acuminate, recurved ; /fem leafy, angular, fome-_ 
what taller than root-leaves, branched downwards, upwards pani- — 
culately racemole; peduncles divergent, numerous, one-flowered, 
from the axils of the leaves (which become gradually fmaller) — 
more or lefs decurrently adnate to the ftem, recurved, thickening — 
attheir top; corol/a cernuous, hexapetaloufly divided, perliltents 
fegments green, edged with purple-brown, equal, fubulate- é 
lanceolate, reflex, convolutely concave, fhortly unguiculate, — 
marked juft above the bend with a roundifh fpot, the difk of 
which is flightly hollowed ; filaments exacily hypogynous, + 
fubulate-fetiform, one-third fhorter than fegments, divergent, — 
recurved ; anthers {mall, fagittately ovate, brown; germén 
‘obconic-globular, rounded-trigonal ; /y/es three, green, fili- 
form extending by half their length beyond the ftamens, ur- — 
-ceolately divergent, not beakedly continuous with the germeD, 
deciduous ; /igmas incon{picuous, obliquely flit, biant, brow — 
-The whole plant fcentlefs.  G. 7 | ee 
SPECIES. 
Jongiflorum. Villd. Sp. Pl. 2. 266. (WurMBEA.) 
-monopetalum, Linn. Suppl. 2.31. (WurMBea campanulata 
Willd. 1. c. 265. Wurssea capenlisB. Bol. 
Rep. t. 221.) : oe 
fpicatum. Supra {ee 694. (WurRMBeEa campanulata B. Willd 
, ty : 
pumilum, Nobis. (WurmBea pumila, Wild. 1. ¢.) 
revolutum. Herb, Bank/. (WurmBea.) 
Inuftum. Herb, Bank// (WurmMsea.) 
remotum. Herb. Bankf. (Wurmpea.) 
ftigmofum. Herb, Bankf. (WurMBEA.) 
junceum. Supra tab. 558. (idem cum triquetro.) 
fecundum. Lam. Encyc. 4. 29. ill, t. 269. f. 2. 
ciliatum, Willd. |. ¢. 267. oe 
capenfe. Willd. l. c. (idem cum blando, Herb. Bankf) 
Juridum. Herb. Bankf. a nobis (Jupra No. 964) difium mins 
reéle lucidum ; ifidemque male pro eodem cum 
phalangoide (quod Heron # /pecies) datum. oF 
uniflorum. Supra tab. 767. (ciliatum. Jacq. fragm. t. 3-f- 3) 
eucomoides. Supra tab. 641, . = - 
viride. Supra tab. / 
indicum. Willd. 4c, 268. (Herb, Bank/. exempl. Tranquebar 
