Descr. A flefhy roofftock from which defcend feveral thick 
flefhy fubfufiform fibres or roots. Stem upright, ftri&t, round, 
compreffed, paniculately and divaricately branched; inflorefcence 
racemofe; racemes feveral, ftraight, many-flowered, rather 
clofe ; pedicles rather fhorter than the diameter of the corolla, 
filiform, upright, diverging but little; braces fhorter than 
thefe, membranous, ovate, convolute, awned-acuminate ;_ ¢o- 
rolla fix-parted, revolutely radiate, at their bafe turbinately 
convergent for a very fhort fpace; /egments linear-oblong, — 
fomewhat concave, obtufe, white, traverfed by a green keeled 
line without, flightly unguiculate and marked with a kind of 
double yellow ftain at the bafe within, inner ones nearly twice 
the broadeft ; fi/aments entirely hypogynous, not adnate to the 
fegments, than which they are fomewhat fhorter, attenuately 
filiform, ereét, fafciculately convergent, flattened down- 
wards, and adpreffed to the germen, where they are to- 
mentofely pubefcent, particularly the alternate ones, which are 
fomewhat higher; anthers fhort-oblong; /yle ere&, longer 
than ftamens, filiformly flender, flightly. curved; /figma an 
inconfpicuous point; germen green, f{mall, hexagonally ob- 
ovate, perforated by three {mall pore-like apertures, from each 
of which iffues a {mall drop of cryftalline liquid, as in Hya- 
CINTHUS orientalis. : 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope; cultivated in 1731, 
by Mitrer. Our drawing was made at the Nurfery of 
Meffrs. Wuirtey and Bramz’s, Old-Brompton. G. 
