in the works of Jacquin, so rich in the Ensatz of those 
regions, nor have we ever heard of its being in any garden, 
although enumerated in the Kew Catalogue. 
The present species is a fibrous-rooted evergreen peren- 
nial. Leaves edgewisely-distich, linearly ensiform, narrow, 
slightly glaucous, a foot or-much more in length, slightly 
convex at one of the sides.~ Scape ancipital, flat, linear, 
leafless, without joint or knot, streaked, inclined, edgeways, 
equal to or longer than the leaves, stiffish as the whole 
plant is, except the flower. General spathe terminal, bi- 
valved, compound, equitant, several-flowered, valves lan- 
ceolate and folded, the outer one appearing like a continu= 
ation of the scape, and is sometimes carried on a con- 
siderable length beyond the flowers, when these appear like 
lateral ones; but it is also often not much longer than the. 
inner divergent one: partial spathes about 3, several-valved,» 
with ] or 2 flowers. Peduncles even with the partial spathes, 
Villous, white, somewhat robust. Germen green, smooth, . 
several times shorter than the corolla, oblong, obsoletely: 
three-cornered, unfurrowed, many-seeded: corolla imbri- 
cately stellate, yellow, thinly sprinkled with purple dots’ 
round the centre, about two inches over, nearly equal; seg= 
ments ovally lanceolate, exterior ones of a reddish brown at 
the back, interior one scarcely broader but more bluntly’ 
pointed with a short brown streak at the lower part of the 
middle.of .the back. .Stamens,about twice shorter than the: 
corolla, upright; fi/aments fixed in the thicker centre, quite 
Separate, thickish, ancipitally compressed, subulate, firm, 
yellowish, more than twice shorter than the anthers: an- 
thers uprightly connivent, sagittately linear, inserted at the 
Notch in the base, stiff, s of an inch long; pollen deep yel- 
low or orange. Style more than twice shorter than the 
filaments, robust, triquetral, tapered downwards: stigmas 
three times longer than the style or more, divaricate, com- 
pressedly subulate, whitish, straight, stiff, with a short 
pubescent fissur- at the end of the inner edge. 
We had an opportunity of inspecting a considerable 
number of the native specimens of this species in Mr, 
Burchell’s Herbarium. 
