Descr. Bulb-tuber ovate-globular, fubdepreffed; Jeaves 
2—g, linear, flender ; upwards four-winged, being decuf- 
fately interfe€ted by a laminate midrib of the fhape and 
breadth of its G/ade, downwards petiolelike, cylindric, nerved- 
ftriate, fheathing the ftem nearly as far as the flower- 
 fpike, radical one outer longer, cauline inner far fhorter ; 
Scape round, upright; rachis flexuofe, 2—8-flowered ; flowers 
bending forwards in one rank, from alternate pofitions ; /pathe 
of two convolute-concave membranous va/ves, lanceolate, about 
the length of tube; corol/a funnelform, geniculately curved; 
tube cylindrical, expanding into a broader turbinate faux that 
is dilated into a nodding fix-parted campanulately bilabiate /imb 
of nearly equal length, /egments ovate-elliptical, acuminate, 
recurvedly patent, the three forming the upper /ip feparated 
from thofe that compofe the lower by a deeper interfeétion 
than that which divides the lower fegments from each other, 
rather broader, middlemoft the broadeft of all and incumbent, 
nether ones equal among themfelves, propendent ; the forks of 
the fifflures of the limb are generally furmounted by a tran{- 
parent membrane ; ji/aments about equal in Jength to the faux, 
adfcendent, adprefled; fy/e longer than thefe, fhorter than 
corolla; ffigmas divergent, narrow-obcuneate while doubled 
up, when unfolded obcordate, channelled, tapering downwards ; 
anthers fagittate-linear, f{pirally twifted after they have dif- 
charged their pollen. 
The prefent variety, as well as the more common one 
figured above, No. 272, is a native of the Cape of Good — 
Hope, from whence it was received by Meffrs. Lee and 4 
-Kennepy, in whofe Nurfery at Hammerfmith our drawing — 
was made. In the evening and night it diffufes a confiderable 
degree of fragrance, like that of the common garden Pink, 
but in the day-time is deftitute of all {cent. G. 
