umbel at the extremity, of handsome, numerous, drooping 
flowers, accompanied by a many-leaved spatha, which soon 
withers. Peduncles filiform, glabrous. Pertanth superior ; 
of six somewhat incurved and slightly unequal, lanceolate, 
acute, orange-green segments, united at the base into a 
tube. Stamens six, inserted at the top of this tube, and, at 
the very base of the filaments, monadelphous: longer than 
the perianth. Anthers oblong, yellow, fixed near the cen- 
tre of the back ; the.célls opening at the sides. Germen 
globose, with six angles and three cells, each with three 
ovules: Style longer than the stamens, filiform: Stigma 
trifid. Fruit, a large, three-celled, red Berry, containing 
about six, somewhat triangular, whitish seeds, clothed with 
a double integument; the outer loose and pulpy. Albumen 
between waxy and horny. Embryo cylindrical. 
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fom piTiog. .Greohniems fA AMBG see TRV odie IS 
Mr. Bowie, who so successfully explored the Botany of Soith- 
ern Africa, and enriched the Royal Gardens at Kew with many of 
its choicest productions, in the summer of last year, immediately 
previous to Ris return to the Cape, mentioned to me‘a Cyrtanthus- 
ike plant, which he had there found and imported, and which, if 
it blossomed in this country, he desired might bear the Specific 
Name of this patron, Mr. Arron, At the same time, the letter 
enclosed one or'two of thé wild specimens of the flowers, and a 
small piece of the leaf; from which it was evident that, however 
closely allied the plant might be to Cyrtantuvs, it could not 
rank in the same Genus. as 
A specimen having flowered in October of last year, in the 
noble gardens at Sion House, Mr. Forrest, under whose skilful 
—— is placed the whole of those truly B see. collections, 
kindly requested His Grace the Duke of NortHuMBeRLAND’s 
permission for a drawing to be made of the plant, from which, 
the accompanying figure is copied, Mr. A1rTon has likewise been 
so obliging as to send méa pees and specimens of the fruit,, 
with the particulars of its habitat, extracted from Mr. Bowte’s. 
notes +“ on shaded spots, near Quagee flats, and more common in 
the Albany tracts, near the great Fish River.” | 
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_ Fig.l. Lower part of'a Plant, to shew the Root. 2,3. Flowering Scape 
and portion of a leaf, natural size. 4. Flower, from which the segments of 
the Perianth are removed. 6. Anther. 7. Pistil. 8. Section of the Ger- 
men. 9. Berry, natural size. 10, Seed, natural size. 11, Section of 
ditto —Figures 4—8 magnified. 
