Our drawing of the prefent variety was taken from a plant 

 imported by MefTrs. Lee and Kennedy, in whofe confervatory 

 at Hammerfmith it flowered in April lalt, mod probably for 

 the firft time in Europe. No figure of either variety has 

 appeared in any work known to us, except that of j3 in No. 1254 

 of the prefent. The Bankfian Herbarium, contains feveral 

 fpontaneous fpecimens, but we do not find the fpecies recorded 

 in either of the editions of the Hortus Kewenfrs. It is fo ufual 

 with cultivators to flrip off the outermofl and thicker coats from 

 the bulbs which they receive from abroad, before they plant 

 them, that we cannot truft to the appearance they have in our 

 collections when frefhly received from the Cape ; we fufpecl the 

 bulb-tuber drawn with our figure had been ferved in this way. 

 For further account of the fpecies, fee above in No. 1254. G. 



