fcentlefs, of a cherry-red colour, about three inches long, 
opening of the faux marked with a deep violet-purple coloured 
ftar of fix fhort broadifh-pointed rays (neGlaroftigmata) one on 
-the bafe of each fegment; anthers dark purple with yellow 
pollen; /igmas deep rofe-colour; when the flower begins to 
fade, the fegments of the corolla, which are about the third of 
an inch broad, converge fubbilabiately. We have not found 
any traces of the fpecies in any work known to us; it agrees 
with marginata ({ee above No. 608) in having trifarious upright 
divergent ftamens, but difagrees with all the {pecies yet known 
to us in the ftraightnefs and uprightnefs of the corolla, length 
of the tube, and proportionate fhortnefs of the faux. Intro- 
duced into this country from the Cape of Good Hope, by the 
Hon. W. Hersert, in whofe. colleftion it: flowered this 
fummer ; to that gentleman we are alfo obliged for the fpecimen 
from which the drawing was made, as well as for his obfervations 
on the fpecies. G, 
