years past in the Botanic garden at Montpellier, where it 
had been obtained from a collection at Bourdeaux. It 
has been referred to Scitita by M. De Candolle, and specifi- 
cally named by that celebrated botanist, from the cireum- 
stance of the blossom expanding after mid-day. 
We suspect the plant to be of the same species with a 
dilapidated sample from the Cape of Good Hope, preserved 
in the Banksian Herbarium under the title AnrHericum 
scabrum; but from the imperfect state of the specimen we 
offer our opinion as a mere guess. 
Rootstock bulbicipitous (terminated by a bulblike bud), 
with brownish fibrous coarsely reticulated integuments. 
Leaves radical, bullrush-shaped, several, ambient, somewhat 
flaccid, broadly subulate, 3-sided, channelled with a sharp 
keel beneath, glaucous at the upper surface and streaked 
with shagreenly roughened nerves, outer ones about a foot 
and a half long, revolute along the edge, smooth and green 
underneath. Flowers fugitive, tender, twisting their seg- 
ments together as they decay, white, scentless. Peduncles 
one-flowered, green, round, smooth: corolla about an inch 
and a half across, sixparted, recurvedly stellate, converging 
downwards; segments linearly ligulate, obtuse, upwards 
wide apart, marked down the middle of the back by a pur- 
plish green line, inner ones rather broader and blunter. 
Stamens even with the corolla, uprightly divergent: filaments 
very shallowly fixed to the base of the segments, filiformly 
subulate, smooth, somewhat widened downwards and in- 
wardly channelled. Germen green, oblongly tapered, se- 
veral times shorter than the style, roundedly 3-cornered, 
and marked with six paler lines; cells 2-seeded: style 
setaceous, inclining slightly upwards with a gentle curve, 
even with the stamens; terminated by an inconspicuous 
notch for the stigma. 
