leaves about 8 inches long, and foon forming large tufts • flem 

 from 8 inches to a foot and a half high, flcnder, accompanied 

 at firft by one or two fhort leaves which grow out in length and 

 are followed by others ; flowers fmall herbaceous, membranous, 

 fcenflefs ; anthers large, fubdidymoufly orbicular, broader 

 acM/is, outwardly 4-fulcate ; pollen yellow ; ftigmatofe pubef- 

 cence white. Introduced fotne years fince from the Cape of 

 Good-Hope, by Mr. G. Hibbkrt. Ou.r drawing was made 

 from a fpec<men that flowered laft Oclober, in the greenhoufe 

 at Mr. Knight's Nurfery on the King's-Road, Fulham. G, 



