glandular pubescence, crisped, on short petioles, with a 
strong middle rib, and a few veins prominent beneath : at 
the flowers, the pairs occasionally approach, so as to give 
the appearance of a four-leaved verticel. Peduncles nearly 
three-fourths of an inch long, simple, rarely solitary, gene- 
rally aggregated, situated on the side of the stem, between 
the leaves, two or more frequently agglutinated together in 
the luxuriant specimen described. Bracteas small, awl- 
shaped, at the base of the peduncles. Calyx small, five- 
parted, pubescent, segments awl-shaped, and very much 
resembling the bracteas. Corolla monopetalous, pubes- 
cent within, naked without ; limb five-parted, plicate, occa- 
sionally twisted, forming to the bud an angular, blunt beak, 
about an inch long, of the same colour as the back of the 
leaves, segments afterwards spreading wide, their edges 
revolute, upper surface dark olive-green, faux devoid of 
pubescence, yellow, especially within-side, crowded with 
deep purplish-brown, oblong, transverse spots, which on 
the outside are fewer and more rounded ; tube campa- 
nulate ; crown deep-purple, included, monophyllous, with 
five teeth, which are connivent over the stigma ; there is an 
emarginate, erect border on the outside of each, and be- 
tween them five pits, over which are situated the truncated 
stamens, each having two distinct pollen-masses, and a de- 
pending, central, double beak. Germen of two smooth, 
green, conical follicles ; each with many ovules attached to 
their inner side. Stigma common to both follicles, large, 
flat, white. 
Several bulbs of this plant were collected in Southern 
Africa, by Mr. Bowie, and sent, with many others, in the 
spring of 1829, to Mr. Nett, in whose stove at Canonmills 
they flowered in May, 1830. The species approaches Bra- 
cuysTetma spathulatum, Bot. Reg. t. 1113, but it seems to 
me evidently distinct. Mr. Ne has received another 
plant, which has not yet blossomed, from the same qual- 
ter, of which the leaves are flat and elliptico-spathulate, 
while the bulb is somewhat elevated in the centre. It 
seems probable that it will prove to be the B. spathulatum. 
In the natural groupe of plants to which BracuysTELMA 
belongs,. there are many fetid species, but I am not ac 
quainted with any whose smell is so decidedly stercora- 
ceous as the present individual. Granam. 
