dotted on the outer, feratles feveral, narrow-lanceolate at the 

 bale of the calyx. Corolla of five, large, rounded-ovate petals, 

 white, ftreaked with crimfon and ftained with the fame colour 

 on the outfide near the tips. Stamens five fertile and five 

 fterile, placed alternately and inferted into a glandular belt 

 furrounding the germen : Anthers on the fertile ftamens longer 

 than the filaments, and terminated with a greenifh glandular 

 fubftance ; the tips of the barren filaments are furnifhed with a 

 fimilar gland. Germen green, hemifpherical, with five glan- 

 dular points : Style fhorter than ftamens, at the firft expansion 

 of the flower recurved, afterwards erecl. : Stigma torulufe. 



Although very nearly related to D. uniflora, we do not 

 hefitate to confider this fpecies as diftincl from Diosma 

 uni flora, although very nearly related to it, efpeciaily from 

 the prefence of a pair of remarkable glands at the bafe of 

 the footftalks of every leaf, which in unijlora, if not entirely 

 wanting, are barely viable in the old leaves only : a charafter 

 firft pointed out to us by Mr. George Loddiges. The 

 habits of the plants are alio confiderably different, the leaves 

 in uniflora are not only much fmaller and narrower, but more 

 revolute and more glaucous on the under furface ; the calyx 

 too is lefs pun&ate and more ciliate than in fpeciofa ; the 

 young branches are more decidedly quadrangular and pu- 

 befcent. In variety (j3), the rugofa of Donn, the glands at the 

 bafe of the petiole are the fame as in fpeciofa, but perfectly 

 Jmooth, not villous, .as Thunberg defcribes his plant. 

 Communicated by MefTrs. Loddiges. Native of the Cape. 

 Flowers in May and June. Requires the fhelter of a green- 

 houfe. Propagated by cuttings. 



