in the royal colle&ion prior to the publication of that work. It 

 is therefore not improbable that the plant there mentioned may 

 be the fame as the one we have here figured, which was com- 

 municated by Mr. Haworth. Variety y, having yellow flowers, 

 is probably not fpecifically different from our plant. For the 

 laft, we have only the authority of Jacquin's figure in his 

 Fragmenta, which was copied from a drawing taken from a native 

 fpecimen at the Cape of Good-Hope, by Mr. George Scholl. 

 This appears to differ fomewhat in the fhape of the leaves, and is 

 altogether a larger plant, having purple flowers nearly two inches 

 in diameter. 



How very rarely thefe plants produce bloffoms, may be 

 gathered from a remark of Jacquin's, that of five individuals 

 remaining out of upwards of two hundred raifed from feeds, and, 

 at the time of his publication, eight years old, not one had fhewn 

 any figns of flowering. 



Native of the Cape of Good-Hope. Requires to be kept 

 in the dry ftove during the winter months. Propagated by 

 cuttings. 



