oint in that direction visited by any european who has 
returned to the Cape of Good Hope. It differs from the 
many others we have examined, by a corolla with rhom- 
boidally lanceolate segments terminating in long abruptly 
narrowed caudately tapered points. The roots are roasted 
and eaten like chestnuts, which they resemble in taste and 
quality. 
Bulb-tuber ovate, tapered, with a kernel nearly of the 
substance of a chestnut, and netted integuments. Leaves 
very long, four or thereabouts, placed towards the bottom 
of the stem, twice as high as that, linear, acuminate, 
glaucous, scarcely a line and half broad, having a square 
midrib prominent from both surfaces, but not equalling 
in depth the breadth of the blade. Spike 8-flowered or 
thereabouts, loose, upright, flexuose. Spathes sphacelate, 
rolled close, twice shorter than the flowers; valves equal, 
inner one bifid. Corolla of a yery diluted purple, nearly 
bleached, about an inch and a half long, semiringent, with 
unequal lips: ¢wbe slender, equal to the spathe; segments 
suddenly narrowed into a long slender point, upper one 
broadest, arched, standing aloof; the rest rhomboidally 
lanceolate connivent, two upper lateral ones opposite and 
broader than the three lowermost, which are marked with 
crimson. 
The drawing was taken in September, from a plant 
at Mr. Burchell’s, Fulham. 
