CHIVES. Six threads, awl-shaped, upright. Tips small, laying on the threads, four-furrowed. POINTAL. Seed-bud bluntly three-sided. Shaft simple, the length of the chives. Summit blunt, and three-cornered. SEED-VESSEL. Capsule egg-shaped, smooth, three-furrowed, three-valved. SEEDS numerous, angulated. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Anthericum foliis hirsutis, planis, costatis, lineari-ensiformibus, supra medium reflexis; scapo simplici, glabro; floribus albis; radice bulboso. Anthericum with hairy, flat, leaves, ribbed, linearly sword-shaped, turned back from the middle; flower-stem simple, smooth; flowers white, root bulbous. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Chives and Pointal, magnified. 2. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, magnified. 3. The half of the Seed-bud cut transversely, magnified. It is much to be lamented that we, as yet, have not discovered a mode of treatment by which many of the species or Albuca, Ornithogalum, Anthericum, &c. from the Cape, might be induced to flower with us, after the first year from their importation; since many of them never produce more than a few leaves afterwards; and this plant, we fear, is amongst the number. It makes a very handsome and sweet bunch of flowers, which have considerable duration, not less than a month from first expansion. We can say little as to the propagation and culture; as it has not as yet increased, nor has it produced any flowers since our drawing was made, in August 1801. We think it is only in the Hibbertian Collection, to which it was introduced by Mr. Niven, in 1800, from the Cape of Good Hope. [Illustration] PLATE CCXCIX. LACHENALIA REFLEXA. _Reflexed-flowered Lachenalia._ CLASS VI. ORDER I. _HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Six Chives, One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 6-partita, infera; petalis tribus interioribus longioribus. Stamina erecta. Capsula subovata, trialata. Semina globosa. BLOSSOM 6-divided, beneath; the three inner petals the longest. Chives erect. Capsule nearly egg-shaped, three-winged. Seeds globular. See LACHENALIA PENDULA, Pl. XLI. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Lachenalia foliis ovato-lanceolatis, plurimis; petalis equalibus, acutis, reflexis, rubro punctatis; germine pedicillato, subgloboso. Lachenalia with leaves between egg and lance-shaped, numerous; petals equal, pointed, reflexed, and dotted with red spots; seed-bud with a foot-stalk, and roundish. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. One of the Petals, which are divided to the base, with its chive. 2. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, natural size. 3. The same, magnified.