The place of this genus in a natural system does not 
seem to be finally determined. By Professor de Jussicu it 
has been provisionally enrolled in his order of Gerania or 
Geranium-tribe. _Some species of it are to be found in 
each of the four quarters of the globe; but of rather more 
than a hundred that are already recorded, about ninety are 
natives of the Cape of Good Hope. The present is from 
thence, and was introduced by Mr. F. Masson in 1775. 
Bulb about the size of a filbert, ovate, consisting of a 
crustaceously membranous covering, and a white kernel of 
the consistence of an almond. Stem more or less elevated 
above the ground, scaly. eaves 5 or more, terminal, di- 
gitate, smooth; petioles 1-2 inches long, thick, compressed ; 
leaflets 5-9, linear-ligulate, each at first folded separately, 
then expanded, obtuse with a small point, ninutely dotted, 
paler at the under side, 1-2 inches long, about two lines 
broad. Peduncles several, nearly of the stature of the 
petioles, jointed at the base, one-flowered, having two small 
bractes placed alternately near its top. Corolla deep yellow. 
‘Filaments connected at the base, immer ones denticulate, 
sprinkled with short capitate hairs, from which the small 
teeth are free: outer ones thickly covered by the same kind 
of pubescence as the inner. Styles very short, pubescent 
niderneath, smooth above. When the leaflets are closed 
the foliage has a very distinct appearance from that which 
it has when these unfold. ; 
_A greenhouse plant, cultivated in small pots filled with 
a mixture of peat-mould and hazel loam. The drawing 
was taken this spring at Mr. Creswell’s conservatory in 
Battersea Square, : 
_ @ Calyx. b Stamens and styles, when removed from the corolla, @ The 
pistil. c A long and a short stamen, 
