wards caudately attenuated and carinate-triquetral, with a keel 
generally ciliate, outer ones fhorter; /pathe convolute, one- 
valyed ; peduncle folitary, one-flowered, fhorter than leaves; 
at the joint conneéting {cape and peduncle one or two {mall 
bulbs; corol/a largith, Iris-like, bearded, hexapetoufly 
parted ; fegmenis alternately larger; uugues longer than 
lamine, turbinately convergent, outer broader, fhaggy inwards, 
having a fmall ne@ariferous hollow near their bafe; outer 
lamine recurved-patent, treble the broadeft, round-ovate, 
fhaggy at their bafe ; inner upright, diverging, obovate-elliptic, 
together with the ungues of a fpathulate form; /ly/e very fhort; 
Stigmas petaloid, upright, about equal to inner fegments ; inner 
lip bipartite, fegments narrow, acuminate; outer /7p entire, 
rounded, very fmall; ji/aments connate at the bafe for the 
length of ftyle, then feparate and diverging, about the length 
of the anihers ; germen oblong, continuous to the peduncle, 
not one-third the length of the ungues, flender, rounded- 
trigonal. 
The whole plant is fcentlefs; and the flower, withus, lafted 
but one day. Tuunserc {peaks of roots which produced 
feveral ftems in fucceffion. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, where it is found near 
the town in dry ftony fpots, flowering in Auguft. Our fpeci- 
men was fent us by Meffis. Kennepy and Lez, of Ham- 
merfmith, in whofe colle@ion it has now flowered, probably, 
for the firft time in Europe. Clofely allied to Monza papi- 
lionacea (fee above, No. 750) as well as to the European Mor £A 
Sifyrinchium, of which laft excellent figures may. be feen in 
Revoure’s Liliacees and Sistuorrs’s Flora Greca, under 
the name of Iais Sif/princhium. G. : 
