high, about the thicknefs of the little finger towards their 

 bafe and purplifh when young, filled with a watery pulp ; 

 lower rootjheaths purplifh, upper herbaceous and white towards 

 the circumference, from one to near two inches long ; /cape 

 near two feet high, glaucous ; bracles and pedicles green ; 

 corolla tawny-yellow, when clofely infpe&ed glittering ; fila- 

 mentous beard bright yellow, fometimes greenifh ; anthers yel- 

 low ; Jlyle paler. Introduced from the Cape of Good Hope, 

 by Mr. Masson, in 1793. We are indebted to Mr. Cuff, 

 of Curzon-Street, for the fpecimen from which our drawing 

 was made; it flowered in his greenhoufe laft November. As 

 far as we could perceive, the whole plant was fcentlefs. G. 



