PLATE CCCXCVIII. 
WACHENDORFIA VILLOSA. 
Villose Wachendorfia. 
CLASS Ill. ORDER £ 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
-CoRoLLa sex-petala, inequalis, infera. Cap- Bossom six-petalled, unequal, beneath. Cap- 
sula trilocularis, supera. | sule above three-celled. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wacuenporria, foliis lineari-ensiformibus 
. plicatis triplinerviis, cauleque viliosis, flo- 
ribus paniculatis. 
cated linear-sword-shaped leaves, and stem 
| Wacuenporria, with the triple-nerved pli- 
villous ; and panicled flowers. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A floral leaf. 
2. The chives and pointal. 
3. The pointal and summit magnified. 
4, The seed-bud cut transversely. 
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Tue villous-leaved Wachendorfia is not enumerated in Professor Willdenow’s new edition of Species 
Plantarum, and appears to be a new species. It is very closely allied to W. hirsuta, but differs suffi- 
ciently from that species in the shape.of the leaves. It is likewise extremely near akin to W. grami- 
nea, which, however, is destitute of all pubescence, whilst ours is pubescent all over. Its flowers are 
yellow, like those of hirsuta and paniculata; it rises to the height of a foot anda half, prospers with 
the usual treatment of Cape Bulbs; and was communicated to us in flower, in June last, by 
W. Anderson, botanic gardener to J. Vere, Esq, Kensington Gore, where it flowers in great perfec- 
tion, and increases pretty readily by the roots, 
