148 “ MASSON’S DRAWINGS OF SOUTH AFRICAN PLANTS. 
not represented in the Kew Herbarium. Herbert rie: it from 
leaves only, but Brant’s figure shows the fruit. Solander, in his 
MSS., wrote a very full description of the plant under the name 
of Gethyllis polyanthera—a name also appended to the drawing; 
e, however, subsequently identified it with G. ciliaris Thunb. 
Masson’s fragmen ntary spesimnens of the latter plants are na 
for comparison ; but Solander appears to have had a living speci- 
men from which to aw up his description, which contains copious 
details which neither Masson’s specimens nor Brant’s drawing 
could have supplied. So little is known of the plant that it seems 
worth while to print Solander’s account of it, which, it must 
remembered, was written of his polyanthera (undulata Herb.) before 
the identification of this with ciliaris had been made. 
patha radicalis, monophylla, ovata, acuminata, uniflora, ger- 
men involvens. Corolla monopetala, alba, hypocrateriformis. Tubus 
; Saat : b 
spatio vix semiunciali ab ore cavus, dein sonsolida tia, sed forsitan 
nectare glutinoso exsiccato). Limbus sexpartitus : lacinia oblonge, 
acute, patentes, sesquiunci ales. Filamenta sex, ore tubi ad basin 
laciniarum corolle insert, subulata, plana, brevia, re qn 
tubo connatus esse. Stigma simplex. Bacca cylindraceo-clavata, 
crassitie digiti, basi attenuata ibique crassa, tres vel quatuor uncias 
longa, lutea, trilocularis, epidermide tenui membranaceo pollae® 
&; @ seminibus maculato-punctata; pu ot viscosa, lute 
Semin numerosa, subrotunda, parum compressa, magnitu tndine 
ernie sinapios mino oris. Obs. Fructus ab ironies colligitur ob 
orem tem.’ 
here are two or three other drawings of Cape plants which 
were aati with those above described, but they are by a differ ent 
artist, and there is nothing to connect them with Masson, One of 
these is the figure of Aponogeton distachyon, reproduced in Bot. Mag-s 
t. 1293; in the letterpress of t. 1292 (Galaxia renee Ker says, 
“ For the drawing of the present plant, as well as of Melanthiwn 
psig gta ot 3 Aponogeton distachyon, we are obliged to the ore 
of Sir Josep h Banks, for whose library the original draw 
were made.” I do not, however, find the originals of either “the 
Galaxia or the iibntidin 
It will, I think, be clear from the foregoing account that t, while 
Lee, of Hiniitiebenntite whose Massonian collection, as I 
my former paper on Masson, cannot now ae found. 
