to another species. The mistake has probably arisen from 
some accidental trausposition of the specimen in the period 
of time that intervened between the taking of the descrip- 
tion and drawing of the flower, and the subsequent ap- 
pearance of the foliage. The true angustifolius (figured in 
Curtis’s Magazine: 271) is very distinct from that of 
Jacquin, it is altogether a smaller plant, with clear green, 
still narrower, not spirally wreathed leaves, and a corolla 
with acuminate segments. 
The present species is an extremely rare plant; and al- 
though recorded in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, — 
we have never met with it in any collection except in 
that of Mr. Burchell, by whom the plant from which our 
figure was drawn was found at Uitenhage, near Algoa 
Bay, in the territory belonging to the colony of the Cape 
of Good Hope. This gentleman brought home many of 
the bulbs, several of which flowered in his garden at Ful- 
ham, in September last. 
Bulb oblong-ovate, with smooth light brown integu- 
ments, streaked, but at widish intervals. Leaves generally 
appearing after the inflorescence has gone by, from twe to 
three, ligulate, upright, spirally wreathed, about half a 
foot high, half an inch broad, narrowed downwards from 
below the middle, glaucous, yet somewhat shining. Scape 
thicker than a large quill, columnar, about a foot high, 
glaucous over green, tinged with purple. Spathe as long as 
the peduncles. Umbel of about seven flowers, divided by 
bractes, flowers cernuous vermilion, inclining to salmon 
colour, about two inches long, with the diameter of 
the stem of a swan-quill, twice as long as the peduncles, 
Corolla of a clayately cylindric form, with a slender 
short tube enlarging into a wider faux, and rather more 
abruptly than in that of either of the allied species, 
glaucus or angustifolius ; limb four times shorter than the 
tubular portion of the flower, patent; segments elliptical, 
ovate, outer three with a small point. Stamens standing 
out as far as the middle of the limb, or farther: anthers 
yellow. 
Requires keeping in a greenhouse during the colder part 
of the year. 
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