nearly double the breadth of the others, nearly round, with 
a dark purple patch at the base, which extends all down the 
unguis. Filaments 10, connected at the base, all dilated 
downwards with sharp points, 7 bearing anthers, which are 
often sterile: barren filaments short and straight. Style 
very short, scarcely any. Stigmas 5, purple, long, and 
spreading, the points reflexed. 
Our drawing of this plant was taken at the Nursery of 
Mr. Colvill, where it was raised from seed, last Autumn, 
brought from the interior of the Cape by Mr. Synnot; it 
has the appearance of an annual or biennial plant, as it 
produces no shoots but what are immediately crowded with 
flowers; and should it prove so, we fear it will soon be 
again lost, as the flowers are all without perfect anthers, so 
that we suspect it to be dioecious. It is the only plant of 
the kind that we have ever seen, and only knew it from 
the figure in L’Heritier’s Geraniologia: should it prove an 
annual plant, and hereafter produce seeds, it may be culti¬ 
vated in the open borders, where it will make a pretty ap¬ 
pearance. Cuttings of it strike root freely, and it thrives 
well in a rich light soil. 
