3-parted, surrounded by the anthers: the segments
fimbriate, each 2-cleft.
Several bulbs of this pretty species were brought from
the Cape last year by Mr. William Synnet, and have
flowered at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill; it was introduced
several years back by Mr. Niven, for the collection
of George Hibbert, Esq. of Clapham, but we
believe it was soon lo st: it is certainly a very distinct
species from H. collina, of which it has sometimes been
considered as a variety; we consider the genus a very
good and natural one, as has already been done by M.
Ventenant, and Mr. Salisbury, certainly very different
from Moraja, and we think nearer related to Sisyrinchium
: besides the present species, four other very
different ones have flowered in Mr. Colvill’s collection,
which with collina and elegans, and some other species
with which we are acquainted, will form not a small
genus.
Like the other genera to which it is related, it may
be grown with them in a bed made on purpose, as mentioned
under Synnetia variegata, or it may be planted
in a border by the side of a south wall, where it may
renqain all the Winter if covered in frosty weather Avith
straw or fern, or any other covering that will keep the
frost from the bulbs, but the soil must be light or sandy,
and the bulbs may be planted from 4 to 6 inches deep,
according to their size. All the Cape bulbs, if planted
in beds in the open ground, will require to be taken up
in Autumn, and to be kept dry and out of the reach of
frost until the following Spring, except the ground in
which they are, be particularly dry, and they will then
require to be well covered in frosty weather. A very
good plan is a brick pit, with lights, Avhere all the sorts
would succeed w e ll; they would not require taking up
in Winter, and would only need covering in wet or
frosty weather.
1. Two o f the segments o f the P erian th ium , to show th e ir inequality and th e ir
bea rd ed base. 2. The th re e Stamens, the filaments villous, united into a cylindrical
tube, but spread open a t the back, to show the front o f the 3 distinct up rig
h t anthers, which a re so close as to appe ar connected also, which is not the
case. 3. The thre e-sid ed Germen, terminated by th e smooth Style and 3-two-
parted fimbriate Stigmas.
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