Lachenalia with leaves in pairs, linearly lance-shaped; flower-stem erect; blossoms hanging down, cylindrical, and four-coloured, with the border of inner petals spreading out. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Flower cut open, with the Chives remaining. 2. An inner Petal, with its Chive, shewn from the inside. 3. An outer Petal, shewn from the outside. 4. The Pointal complete. About the year 1789, this very handsome species of Lachenalia was first received by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith, from the Cape of Good Hope, sent in bulbs to them by J. Pringle, Esq. It is as hardy as the L. tricolor, to which it much inclines, well known to collectors, and is equally easily propagated; an excellent figure of which is to be found, in the 82d Plate of the Botanical Magazine of Mr. Curtis. The L. quadricolor is given as a synonym by Willdenow to L. pendula, a plant we have already figured, and from which this stands quite distinct in the conformation of every part; they are both to be found in the 2d Vol. of Icon. of Jacquin, from whom we copy our specific title, the pendula, t. 400, the quadricolor, t. 396. [Illustration] PLATE CXLIX. STRUTHIOLA CILIATA _Fringed-leaved Struthiola._ CLASS IV. ORDER I. _TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Four Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. PERIANTHIUM diphyllum. Corolla tubulosa, 4-fida; Nectarium, glandulæ octo fauci circumpositæ. Semen unum, subbaccatum. CUP two-leaved. Blossom tubular, 4-cleft; Honey-cup, 8 glands placed round the mouth of the blossom. One seed like a berry. See STRUTHIOLA IMBRICATA, Pl. CXIII. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Struthiola foliis ovato-lanceolatis, mucronatis, ciliatis, concavis, quadrifariam imbricatis, apice incurvis; corolla subalbida. Struthiola with leaves between egg and lance-shaped, pointed, fringed, concave, tiled in four rows, turned inwards at the point; blossom whitish. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A leaf shewn side-ways that the incurvature of the upper part may be seen. 2. A flower complete. 3. The two leaves of the Empalement, magnified. 4. A blossom cut open, to expose the situation of the chives, at the mouth of the tube, magnified. 5. The Pointal, a little magnified. This is the variety of Struthiola ciliata promised in the last number. It varies from the other in the largeness and incurvation of the leaves, and colour of the flower, as well as, in the growth of the plant; in this, the stem rises to three feet; in that, it seldom exceeds one. With rather less difficulty it is increased and preferred than the red variety, and makes a very handsome figured plant, flowering in the month of August, at which season, last year, our drawing was taken from a plant in the Hibbertian Collection. This Var. has the advantage of the other, in having the blossoms extremely fragrant, in the evening. [Illustration] PLATE CL. GERANIUM PRÆMORSUM. _Bitten-leaved Geranium._ CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. _of Suppl. Syst. Veg. 1781._