No. 1038. 
LIGHTFORTIA TENELLA. 
Class, Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
This plant is a native of the Cape of 
Good Hope, lately introduced. Itis of a 
very slender, delicate habit, and flowers 
during most of the summer. 
It requires the constant protection of the 
greenhouse, and may be increased by cut- 
tings. The soil should be sandy peat. 
It is sometimes confounded with L. 
oxycoccoides, from which it differs, accord- 
ing to Sir J. Smith, in its very numerous, 
clustered, recurved, and deeply channelled 
leaves, and the longer and narrower seg- 
ments of the corolla. It was first noticed 
by Thunberg. 
