Descr. Leaves from fix inches to a foot long, narrow, 
flefhy, and thick, often marked on the inner fide with a 
ftraggling dufky brown {pot or two; fem marbled-variegated 
with cinnamon colour and green; flcwers about three lines 
long, greenifh white with an external reddifh brown ftain at 
_ the fummit of each fegment, appearing, though more faintly, 
on the inner farface; {cent fomewkat refembling that of the 
Peruvian Heriorrorium. While fpeaking in No. 1372 of 
this plant (at that time unknown to us but by drawings and in 
herbariums) we had formed an opinion that it would be found 
not to be fpecifically different from the anguffifolia of No. 7353 
but a comparifon of the corolla in the live ftate fhewed us that 
no two fpecies could be more clearly diftin@. The orthopetala 
of JAcguin has been errofieoufly adduced by WILLDENOW. 
as its fynonym, who has been followed in this error by the 
editor of the fecond edition of the Hortus Kewenfis ; fee our 
obfervations in No, 1372. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence it was brought 
into the Kew Gardens by Mr. Masson in.1774. 
Our drawing was made at Mr. Knicut’s nurfery, King’s: 
Road, Fulham. G, 3 
a a 
ERRATA. 
N6. 750, 1. 29, for “inner read «€ outer.” 
No. 695, 1. 13, pro * fifyrinchio” lege ‘ longiflora.”” 
No, 1372, 1. 23, for * contominata’”’ read “ contaminate,’ 
