244 : ON THE GENUS ANDROCYMBIUM. 
leaves which hide the flowers from view except when we look at them 
from above. Three Cape species have long been known, and are 
dencsibed 5 in the 4th volume of Kunth’s Enumeratio, page 152-3, but 
as Professor Harvey has already stated in the second edition of his 
Cape Genera, there are several others to be added. A new one was 
lately sent by Mr. MacOwan to the gardens at Kew, a nd cultivated at 
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species, three new ones having been found by Bure ell eri years 
ago in his exploration of the barren tract in the very eart 
the colony, which i habit, ba been characterised. The whole are quite 
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group they are piel shorter and Pa and more membranous oF 
chartaceous in texture, but are not distinctly striped ; and in a hird 
group they are greatly modified in form, with a n almost petaloid 
texture (like the upper bracts of Salvi at gabe or Lavandula 
Stechas) and are marked with close very distinet a dad ons 
pale ground which are green in an early, and b wnish in a late 
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Genus Anprocrusrum, Willd. Perianthium corollinum 6-partitum 
infundibulare, segmentis squalibus longe unguiculatis, m 
laminze lanceolate acuminate deorsum ‘valde convoluto-cucwtlats 
Stamina 6, filamentis filiformibus ad basin lamin insertis inclusis 
vel leviter a anthers oblongis vel lineari-oblongis prope basi 
affixis bilocularibus extrorsis. Ovarium globosum sessile triloe 
ovulis in loculo ere cae biseriatis, carpellis apice liberis, in 
persistentes erectos subulatos apice emeiaen uncinatos desi 
Capsula membranacea septicide tri ivalvis, seminibus crebris 
biseriatis triquetris, testa brunnea membranacea, alba Comet 
Herbe acaules vel breviter caulescentes, bulbo vel corio tunicato, flor 
a bE viridulis dense corymbosis sessilibus vel pei folits 
us bract teiformibus, 
Sarena en ue OR ESee te? ie OE SS er eee 
elongatis ascendentibus, interioribus sepe difformid 
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Gro Folia interiora exterioribus multo breviora obtusior® 
albida _. venis verticalibus viridibus vel brunneis deco 
tanrarorEs, Willd., Kunth Enum., iv. 153. —Bre pe 
caulescens, foliis propriis 2- 3 at ibus haud pec 8 pol 
basi t deltoiden, flamentis fn i luteis pat ob oF 
4.3 lin. longis. Cap. B. Spei, late disseminata, Burke 285 |, oe : 
264 , MacOwan iF ae Flowers from January to "March, and ascem! ends 
noe feet in Graat Reinet. ster 
um, Hochst. inSchimp. Iter Abyss., No. 1338. eee i 
cated foliis 1 propriis 2-3 linearibus canaliculatis ascenden get 
acuminatis 3-5 poll. longis haud aggregatis, bracteiformibus § 
