them the minute heart-shaped anthers are concealed, seat-— 
ed upon a very short filament. Germen obversely ovate, 
inferior : Style as long as the tube of the perianth, having 
its small acute stigma embraced by the anthers. ee 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence our seeds 
were received which produced plants in the Glasgow — 
Botanic Garden ; flowering in the month of August, 1826. _ 
It appears to be very different from any hitherto de- — 
scribéd species of the genus, although approaching perhaps _ 
nearest to the common Pu. ericovdes. | 
Fig. 1. Flower, with its bractea. 2. Ditto, without the bractee, and — f 
shewing the situation of the seales or petals. 3. Flower laid open, to shew 
style and stamens, and more particularly the nature of the scales. 4. Upper — 
side of a leaf. 5. Lower ditto—All more or less magnified. Z 
