it regular; while, in fa£f, it is fomewhat irregular, having the 

 four lateral fegments flightly converging towards the upper 

 central one, leaving the lower central one feparated from the 

 immediate lateral pair by larger intervals. 



The prefent variety, befide^s the colour and fpots of the 

 corolla, differs from («) in having the ftigmas not advanced 

 beyond the anthers, which are alfo flightly divergent 

 and not exaBly parallel as there. But thefe are differences 

 which, experience has fhewn us, are not to be ib fafely relied 

 on for fpecific feparation in this tribe as in fome others. 



If the beauty of the three plants we have here offered to 

 the public, fhould not be thought a fufBcient excufe for giving 

 more than one variety of a fpecies; we might add that, in our 

 opinion, the acquaintance with the remarkable modes of fpecific 

 variation, is as efiential to a complete knowledge of vegetables 

 as any other part of their hiliory. 



Our drawing was taken from a fpecimen in Mr. Wood- 

 ford's collection. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



Flowers in principal fpike 4 — 5 j nearly three inches long j 

 fcentlefs. G, 



