Bulb about the fize ofa child’s head, depreffed-globofe, 
tunicate-{quamofe, fcales very broad, of equal height, fo clofely — 
joined as to give the whole the appearance of a tunicate Bulb; — 
Leaves appearing after the feape has withered, about a foot and — 
half high, two inches broad, lorate-lanceolate, finely nerved-— 
ftreaked, convolutely mucronate; Scape wand-like, round, — 
perpendicular, very flightly tapered, glaucous, about the thick — 
nefs of a man’s finger, together with the rachis nearly five feet © 
high, central; Raceme alopecuroidal, cylindrical, crowded, © 
tapering towards the top, nearly two feet long; pedicles fili- 
form, itanding at right, angles with the rachis, fhorter than 
the corolla; éraées broad-fubulate, membranous, with the 
upper half firft doubled inwards uncinately, at Jength reflex, 
upper ones becoming progreffively almoft obfolete ; corolla 
hypocrateriform-campanulate, about three parts of an incl 
long, of a yellowifh white colour, fcentlefs ; Segments feparated. 
from each other nearly to the bafe, linear-oblong, equal, con- 
verging cylindrically for about a third of their length, then 
rotately patent and {lightly incurved, convolute-concave, out+ 
wards carinate-convex with a green ftripe; ji/aments plano- 
fubulate, about a third fhorter than the fegments, to the bale 
of which they are adnate, upright, converging fafciculately, 
pointing forwards; Anthers before they burft large, oblong, 
green, afterwards yellow; Germen green, lide pai 
fubtriquetral, uneven, far fhorter than. ffy/e, which is even with 
or rather overtopping the corolla, fubclavate, filiform, triquetral, 
upright, flightly curved; Stigma trigonally fubeapitate, not very 
confpicuous, glandularly pubefcent.—Many. flowers on the 
upper part of the raceme are defeétive as to one-third of their 
parts—We do not fee why Jacquin, who inftituted the 
genus and has defcribed feveral fpecies, fhould. have turned 
over the prefent plant to Ornituocatum, from which it 
differs full as much as any other Drimz1a, both in charaéter 
and habit. : % 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope; whence.it: was im 
ported laft year, by Meffrs. Lez and Kennepy, with whom 
it floweredvearly this fpring, at their Nurfery in Hammerfmiths 
moft probably for the firft time in this country. 
The leaves in our plate are fhewn in a very. early fla 
of their growth. G,. J ee ge 
