late, spreading horizontally, faintly 3-nerved, pale yellow, 
the inner or upper side quite free from pubescence. At the 
mouth of the tube are eight, erect, linear, greenish glands 
or scales, placed in pairs at the sinus of the segments; al- 
ternating with these four pairs, having the same line of in- 
sertion, are four linear, almost sessile anthers: these are 
opposite the middle of the segments of the Perianth : lower 
down, and alternating with them, are four others. Pistil: 
Germen oval,a little hispid at the point: Style shorter than 
the tube, inserted below the apex of the germen, flexuose, 
filiform, terminated by a clavate, white, hispid stigma. 
Introduced, but I know not in what year, from the Cape 
of Good Hope, by Mr. Arron, of Kew, and by that gen- 
tleman, kindly presented to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 
where it Pes enva its pale yellow and very agreeably night- 
scented flowers in the greenhouse, in the months of March 
and April. We received it with the name here adopted, 
and it perfectly agrees with a specimen in my Herbarium of 
Gn. tomentosa, from Professor Tuungerc. I am inclined 
to think, however, that the Gnip1a denudata of Mr. Linp- 
LEY, in the Bot. Register, is merely a variety of the same 
species; for, in hairiness, the species is certainly liable to 
great variation; and, perhaps, the Guip1a imbricata of 
Loppicrs, t. 890, is not to be considered distinct from it. 
‘THUNBERG attributes to the imbricata of Linnzus four 
nectaries at the mouth of the tube, but, in other respects, 
his description is not at variance with his own specimens of 
tomentosa. 
et 
_ Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Section of the upper part of a Flower, shewing the 
insertion of the Stamens, and the Scales in G . 3. Pistil :—Magnijfied. 
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