GETHYLLIS /piralis. Linu. Suppl. 198. Thunb, Dif. mt. 
Nov. Gen. 14. Prod. 59. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 104; : 
exclufa Geruytiive afra Linn, Sp. Pl. 633; 
quz fpecies omni parte major ftaminibus duo- 
denis foliifque totidem anguftis linearibus nec 
vero femitereti-filiformibus, eftque eadem cum — 
G. /pirali Horti Kewenfis. 
PAPIRIA /piralis. Thunb. AG. Phyfiogr. 1. p. 111. 
Descr. Bulb whitifh, ovate, about the fize of a nutmeg, 
{quamofe, in perfe& fpontaneous fpecimens covered by one or 
more fcariofely membranous coats; root/lock projecting be- 
neath, annularly rugofe; fibres flefhy, branched ; /eaves about 
fix, appearing long after the flower has decayed, full-grown — 
about the time that the fruit is ripe, ambient, fafcicled, upright, 
diverging, from fomewhat {wollen dilated convolutely con-— 
duplicate bafes femicylindrically filiform, fetaceoufly tapered, 
channelled, ftiffifh, naked, upwards twifted fpirally and fome- 
times coiled with one or more turns, generally enveloped : 
downwards by two membranous root/beaths ; flower fragrant, 
whitith, folitary, hypocrateriform; ade pedunclelike, roundilh, | 
ftraight, partly within the ground, 3—4 times longer than 
Segments, which are ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, radiately ¢X- 
panded, outer ones more tapered and {potted on the outfide : 
with thickfet confluent red dots; Jilaments placed on the orifice | 
of the tube, upright, patent, filiform, 3—4 times fhorter than | 
fegments; anthers linear-oblong, fubfagittate, upright, fixed by | 
the bafe, equal to filaments, recurved ; Style when free from the | 
tube filiform, flender, even with ftamens; /figma trilobately | 
capitate ; Jerry ftraw-coloured, cylindrically clubbed, abo — 
two inches long, lateral, on the outfide of the fafcicle of leaves | 
enveloped at the bafe by a membranous fcariofe convolute | 
one-valved /pathe, gradually elevated above ground from # 
fubfeffile fubterraneous germen; efculent ; fragrant. 
The .prefent fpecies has been univerfally but erroneouly 
confidered to be the fame with the afra of LINNZUS, which 
is altogether much larger, with twelve flamens and as rf: 
leaves, inftead of only fix of each; nor are they femicy” 
lindric-filiform, but linear and narrowly lorate. Spontanco’” 
ipecimens, as well as drawings, made by the late Mr. Mass? . 
at the Cape of Good Hope of both {pecies, together with t 
of {everal unrecorded ones, are now in the poffeffion of Mets 
Lez and Kennepy, along with the reft of the Herbarium @™ 
defigns of that indefatigable collefor. in 
Our drawing was made from a plant that flowered laft July Whe 
the Nurfery of Meffrs. Gras, Brompton. Very few fpecies at@ 
known in our gardens, and thofe have rarely bloomed. G. 
