marked with transverse reddish purple blotches in the 
inside. Filaments and stamens united; the latter bluish 
urple. Germen small, green, inferior. Style curved a 
ittle downwards, entirely concealed by the tube of the 
— Stigma obtuse, encircled with a tuft or ray of 
airs. 
An elegant little greenhouse plant; native of the Cape 
of Good Hope ; flowering in the months of June and July; 
and introduced to this country by Professor Granam of 
Edinburgh, who received the seeds from Africa. 
The flowers are extremely elegant, pure white, richly 
dotted with purple ; and the corolla is strictly unilabiate. 
Fig. 1. Side view of a flower. 2. Upper view of ditto, 3. Pistil and 
calyx,—All, more or less, magnified. 
