medii dorsi. Stam. subduplo breviora corolla, erecto-patul7 : fil. disco incras- 
sato infixa, omnino distincta, -crassiuscula, compressa, ancipitia, subulata 
Jirma, plis duplo breviora antheris, luteola: anth. erecta, subconniventes, 
sagittato-lineares, Hist baseos. infixe, rigide, % uncie circa longe ; Rltsn 
subgrumosum vitellino-flavum. Stylus pls duplo brevior filamentis,  baaes 
triqueter, deorsiim angustatus: stig. 3-plo v. ultra longiora stylo, dicarientns 
compresso-subulata, albida, stricta, latere interiore rima brevi pubescente fers 
minata. 
A species, in as far‘as we can discover, now first intro- 
duced from the: Cape of Good Hope by Messrs. Lee and 
Kennedy, of the Hammersmith nursery, where the drawing 
was made in July. We have never met with it in any 
Herbarium except in that of Mr. Burchell. It seems to 
have entirely escaped the late Mr. Masson during his long 
and extensive search at the Cape in quest of plants. Ina 
tract on the Ensate,. published some years ago in the Annals 
of Botany, we had purposely omitted this species, along 
with 3 other closely kindred ones, in the enumeration of 
that genus; and the inspection of the present plant satisfies 
us that we were right in so'doing. These species are branches 
of the type of Marrca and not of that of Morma. 
In Mora and Iris the stamens are opposite to the space 
between the stigmas, when these are petalshaped, or in- 
serted between the segments into which these are cleft, 
when not petalshaped. But in Manica the stamens are 
opposite to the angles formed by the connivent edges of 
the stigmas, when these are petalshaped, or are inserted 
between them when they are not petalshaped; in short, the 
stamens are alternate with the stigmas in Marca, but op- 
posite to them in Morza and Ints. Differences that are 
accompanied by others in the habit-of the respective plants. 
We do not know how it has happened, but there are 
certain species of the Ensarm, with showy bloom and of 
curious structure, common in the neighbourhood of the 
town at the Cape of Good Hope, which do not appear ever 
to have been introduced into any European garden, or at 
least not to have flowered there; such as Marica spathacea, 
one so abundant in its native land as frequently to embar- 
rass the way of the traveller by its long tough entangled 
foliage; ANTHOLYZA lucidor, Sparaxis pendula, Mora plu- 
maria, and others, Basrana ringens, the most curious and ~ 
splendid flower of the tribe at the Cape, does not appear 
