ments petal-lik6, acute, unguiculate, scarcely joined at
the hase, with a green vein down the centre of each,
and near the hase is a yellow spade-like mark, spotted
with numerous small green specks. Stamens 3, the
filaments all connected in a long tuhe, hecoming slenderer
upwards, densely clothed with short villous
glandular hairs, and producing 3 transparent eye-like
glands near the hase of the tu h e : anthers ahout the
height of the stigmas, which they surround: pollen
yellow. Style smooth. Stigma 3-cleft, the segments
short, hifid, fimhriate, and slightly recurved.
This handsome and very distinct species, is one of
those already mentioned hy us as heing brought from
the Cape by Mr. Synnot, and flowered at the JVursery
of Mr. Colvill, last Autumn; we believe it to be a very
scarce bulb, as only two have flowered, which we believe
are the only ones of the sort in his collection;
hut there are several other very fine species in the same
collection, that were brought at the same tim e ; the
present species is readily known by its tall stem, and
long coriaceous leaves with a white stripe down their
centre; the segments of the perianthium are also different
in form from any other ; Ave believe the species
will be as numerous as those which Avill come under
M o R iE A .
Like the rest of the Cape bulbs, the present species
should be planted in a light sandy s o il; and if groAvn
in the open ground, will need to be well covered in
frosty weather ; or its bulbs may be taken up in Autumn,
and kept dry, and out of the reach of frost, until
the next Spring, when it may be planted the latter end
of March or beginning of April, according as the weather
suits; or if grown in pits or frames, it will only
need covering in severe frost: it will also succeed very
well in pots, to be planted in October, and to remain
in frames all the Winter; a mixture of loam, peat, and
sand, will suit it best.
1. T h e glandularly p ubescent Germen, with the P erian th ium tak en off, to
show the 3 Stamens, all connected into a tube, and enclosing th e Style. 2. The
same, divested o f th e Stamens, an d te rm in a ted by th e smooth Style , and 3-cleft
Stigma, th e segments short and bifid.