Update for 76601HEADmain

47 files changed, 5373 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6833f05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+* text=auto
+*.txt text
+*.md text
diff --git a/76601-0.txt b/76601-0.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..69506de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-0.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2516 @@
+
+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 76601 ***
+
+
+
+
+
+                        THE FLOWERING PLANTS OF
+                             SOUTH AFRICA.
+
+ A MAGAZINE CONTAINING HAND-COLOURED FIGURES WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE
+             FLOWERING PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO SOUTH AFRICA.
+
+                               EDITED BY
+            I. B. POLE EVANS, C.M.G., M.A., D.Sc., F.L.S.,
+            Chief, Division of Botany and Plant Pathology,
+                 Department of Agriculture, Pretoria;
+  and Director of the Botanical Survey of the Union of South Africa.
+
+                                VOL. V.
+
+                            [Illustration]
+
+               The veld which lies so desolate and bare
+               Will blossom into cities white and fair,
+               And pinnacles will pierce the desert air,
+                        And sparkle in the sun.
+
+                  R. C. MACFIE’S “EX UNITATE VIRES.”
+
+
+                                LONDON:
+                         L. REEVE & CO., LTD.,
+                HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON
+
+                             SOUTH AFRICA:
+              THE SPECIALTY PRESS OF SOUTH AFRICA, LTD.,
+         P.O. BOX 3958, JOHANNESBURG; P.O. BOX 388, CAPETOWN.
+                                 1925.
+
+                       [_All rights reserved._]
+
+
+
+
+                              THIS VOLUME
+                        IS CORDIALLY DEDICATED
+                                  TO
+                         THOMAS PEARSON STOKOE
+                             OF CAPE TOWN
+
+                WHOSE INDEFATIGABLE EXERTIONS IN EXPLORING
+                THE FLORA OF THE CAPE MOUNTAINS HAVE
+                RENDERED VALUABLE SERVICE TO SOUTH AFRICAN
+                BOTANY BY THE DISCOVERY OF NEW PLANTS AND
+                THE RE-DISCOVERY OF MANY THAT WERE LONG
+                LOST, AND TO WHOSE ZEAL, ENTHUSIASM, AND
+                GENEROSITY AS A COLLECTOR THIS WORK IS
+                GREATLY INDEBTED.
+
+DIVISION OF BOTANY, PRETORIA.
+_October, 1925._
+
+[Illustration: 161.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 161.
+
+COTYLEDON ORBICULATA.
+
+_Cape Province, Transvaal._
+
+
+CRASSULACEAE.
+
+COTYLEDON, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. i. p. 659.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Cotyledon orbiculata=, _Linn. Sp. Pl._ 614; _Fl. Cap._ vol. ii. p. 371.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_Cotyledon orbiculata_ was first figured in the _Botanical Magazine_ in
+1795, and stated to have been introduced into English gardens about the
+year 1690. The genus _Cotyledon_ differs from _Crassula_ (see Plate 115)
+by having twice as many stamens as petals. It is a large genus in South
+Africa, and represented by between 30 to 40 species. Several species of
+the genus are of economic interest inasmuch as they produce disease in
+stock. The well-known “Krimptziekte” of goats is caused by _C.
+Wallichii_. The Division of Veterinary Education and Research carried
+out some feeding experiments with _C. orbiculata_ in 1921 at
+Grahamstown, and definitely proved that feeding the leaves to fowls
+caused death.
+
+Our plate was prepared from specimens grown at the Division of Botany,
+Pretoria. The plant goes under the common names of “hondenoor,”
+“Konterie,” “Varkens ooren,” and “pig’s-ear.”
+
+DESCRIPTION:--Low shrubby somewhat succulent plant. _Stem_ with
+light-brown bark. _Leaves_ opposite, 6·5 to 8 cm. long, 4 to 4·5 cm.
+broad, obovate, subacute, glabrous, glaucous, with red margins.
+_Peduncle_ up to 27 cm. long, 8 mm. in diameter, terete, reddish in
+colour with a whitish bloom. _Inflorescence_ a panicle of cymes.
+_Calyx-tube_ almost none; lobes 5 mm. long, ovate, acute. _Corolla-tube_
+2·8 cm. long, 1·5 cm. in diameter; lobes 2 cm. long, 7 mm. broad,
+oblong, obtuse, slightly twisted counter-clockwise. _Stamens_ 10, five
+shorter inserted near the base of the corolla-tube, with a ring of hairs
+at the point of attachment and produced below the hairs into a strong
+rib; filaments subterete; anthers ovate. _Carpels_ as long as the
+shorter stamens. _Glands_ forming a deep concave body at the base of
+each carpel.
+
+     PLATE 161.--Fig. 1, longitudinal median section of the flower; Fig.
+     2, gynæcium, showing glands; Fig. 3, stamen; Fig. 4, tuft of hairs
+     on filament; Fig. 5, side view of gland at base of carpel.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+
+[Illustration: 162.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 162.
+
+SYNNOTIA BICOLOR.
+
+_Cape Province._
+
+IRIDACEAE. Tribe IXIEAE.
+
+SYNNOTIA, _Sweet_; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 709.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+              =Synnotia bicolor=, _Sweet_, _Hort. Brit._
+ed. 2, p. 501; _Fl. Cap._ vol. vi. p. 134.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+This species was introduced into the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew by
+George Masson in 1786, and was described as a _Gladiolus_, and later in
+the _Botanical Magazine_ (t. 548) as a species of _Ixia_. From the
+former genus it is readily distinguished by the membranous lacerated
+spathe-valves and from the latter by the unilateral stamens.
+
+The plant is rather stiff, but the individual flowers are quite
+charming. As will be seen from the illustration, the flowers resemble in
+general shape those of _Gladiolus orchidi-florus_ shown at Plate 165 of
+this work.
+
+Our specimen was prepared from plants grown by Dr. I. B. Pole Evans,
+C.M.G., from corms forwarded by Mrs. E. Rood of van Rhynsdorp.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--_Corm_ ellipsoid, 3 cm. long, 1·5 cm. in diameter, covered
+with fine reticulated sheaths. _Leaves_ 7 in a basal distichous rosette,
+8 to 11 cm. long, 0·7 to 1·4 cm. broad, linear-oblong, very acute, with
+1 more or less evident mid-rib, but many-veined when viewed in
+transmitted light. _Peduncle_ about 12 cm. long, flexuose, bearing about
+6 distant flowers. _Outer spathe-valves_ 1 cm. long, deeply 3-partite,
+inner 2-partite. _Perianth_ distinctly 2-lipped; tube 1·5 cm. long,
+widening upwards; posterior segment 2·5 cm. long, erect, clawed, with an
+ovate obtuse limb; side-segments 1·7 cm. long, 6 mm. broad, more or less
+oblong, obtuse, spreading-reflexed; 3 anterior segments more or less
+horizontal and forming a distinct lip. _Style_ as long as the stamens,
+divided into 3 lobes dilated at the apex. (National Herb. Pretoria, No.
+2860.)
+
+     PLATE 162.--Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2,
+     spathe-valve; Fig. 3, stamen; Fig. 4, style showing stigmas; Fig.
+     5, fruit.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+
+[Illustration: 163.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 163.
+
+GLADIOLUS TRICHOSTACHYS.
+
+_Transvaal._
+
+IRIDACEAE. Tribe IXIEAE.
+
+GLADIOLUS, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 709.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Gladiolus trichostachys=, _Baker in Bull._ _Herb. Boiss._ ser. II. vol. iv.
+p. 1006.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+This charming little _Gladiolus_ was first found by Conrath at Irene,
+near Pretoria, and was again collected by Dr. I. B. Pole Evans, C.M.G.,
+in the same locality. It was described by Baker, with several other
+Transvaal species, in 1904, but is here figured for the first time.
+
+The plant produces a single erect flowering stem with clasping leaves
+scarcely produced above. The species belongs to the Section _Hebea_,
+which we have illustrated on Plates 63 and 165 (_G. alatus_, _G.
+orchidiflorus_), and is closely related to _G. permeabilis_, a species
+common in the Cape Province, but which also extends into Bechuanaland.
+It is, however, easily distinguished from this species by the
+non-produced leaves and hairy stems.
+
+Our illustration was made from the specimens collected by Dr. I. B. Pole
+Evans, C.M.G., at Irene.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--_Bulb_ 2 cm. in diameter, globose, covered with brown
+fibres. _Stem_ pilose on the lower half. _Leaves_ clasping the stem,
+sheath pilose, hardly produced. _Inflorescence_ 13 cm. long, 7-to
+10-flowered. _Outer spathe-valves_ 1·5 cm. long, somewhat membranous
+above, entire, bifid or trifid; inner spathe-valves similar to the
+outer, bifid. _Stamens_ shorter than the style; anthers somewhat
+sagittate at the base. _Style-branches_ cuneate, fimbriate on the
+edges.
+
+     PLATE 163.--Fig. 1, plant much reduced; Fig. 2, median longitudinal
+     section of flower; Fig. 3, outer spathe-valve; Fig. 4, inner
+     spathe-valve; Fig. 5, anther; Fig. 6, portion of style with style
+     branches.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+
+[Illustration: 164.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 164.
+
+ALOE CHABAUDII.
+
+_Rhodesia._
+
+LILIACEAE. Tribe ALOINEAE.
+
+ALOE, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 776.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Aloe Chabaudii=, _Schonl. in Gard. Chron._ 1905, p. 162.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Dr. Schonland in his description of this _Aloe_ in the _Gardeners’
+Chronicle_ states that it is allied to _A. striata_, and a reference to
+our Plate 55 will show the similarity of the flowers in the two species.
+The specimens from which the original description was prepared were
+collected by Mr. J. M. Brown in Rhodesia, but the exact locality is not
+known. They were grown and flowered by Mr. J. A. Chabaud of Port
+Elizabeth. The plant is erect with a short stem, and has not the
+reclining habit of _A. striata_. It is very suitable for large
+rockeries, and makes an effective display when in flower.
+
+Our plate was prepared from specimens grown at the Division of Botany,
+Pretoria.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--Acaulescent or almost so. _Leaves_ 18 to 24, forming an
+irregular rosette, up to 45 cm. long and 15 cm. broad near the base,
+about 2 cm. thick, ovate-lanceolate, unspotted, somewhat glaucous; upper
+surface indistinctly striate, nearly flat, except near the apex, where
+it is channelled; lower surface slightly convex; margin with a narrow
+horny border; prickles 1·5 mm. long or even smaller, at first
+flesh-coloured, brown in older leaves, straight or (especially in the
+upper portion of the leaf) curved forward, about 1·5 cm. apart,
+interspaces straight. _Inflorescence_ a loose panicle, with squarrose
+ascending branches 60 to 80 cm. in height, about 45 cm. in diameter;
+racemes lax, floriferous portion 15 to 20 cm. long; bracts deltoid,
+acuminate, membranous, lowest about 6 mm. long, upper gradually smaller;
+pedicels spreading, lowest 2 cm. long, upper only slightly smaller;
+perianth 3·5 cm. long, slightly curved, distinctly obconical at the
+base, swollen round the ovary, with three decided oblong indentations
+above it (in a line with the inner segments); outer segments pale
+brick-red with nearly white wings near the apex, inner with red median
+line and pale wings, which are yellowish at the apex; tube of corolla
+nearly two-thirds its length; filaments yellow, slightly exceeding the
+perianth in length, anthers pale terra-cotta; ovary broadly oblong,
+green; style yellow, not exserted; stigma very small, capitate (S.
+Schonland).
+
+     PLATE 164.--Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2,
+     bract; Fig. 3, anther; Fig. 4, apex of style.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 165.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 165.
+
+GLADIOLUS ORCHIDIFLORUS.
+
+_Cape Province._
+
+
+IRIDACEAE. Tribe IXIEAE.
+
+GLADIOLUS, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 709.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Gladiolus orchidiflorus= _Andr. Bot. Rep._ t. 241; _Fl. Cap._ vol. vi. p. 160.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In the _Botanical Magazine_ for the year 1803 (Plate 688) appeared an
+excellent figure of this species under the name _Gladiolus viperatus_,
+which was given owing to a fanciful resemblance to “the head and
+appearance of the jaws of the snake when raising itself for defence
+against its enemy and hissing.” Prior to the figure above quoted Jacquin
+illustrated the same species (1781-1786).
+
+Like most species of _Gladiolus_, it lends itself to cultivation and is
+easily grown in pots.
+
+A comparison of this plate of _G. orchidiflorus_ and Plate 63 (_G.
+alatus_ var. _namaquensis_) should be made with other plates of
+_Gladiolus_ figured. The two species belong to the section _Hebea_, all
+the members of which may be easily recognised by the long claws to the
+perianth-segments.
+
+The plants from which our illustration was made were grown by Dr. I. B.
+Pole Evans, C.M.G., at Irene, near Pretoria, from corms sent by Mrs. E.
+Rood of van Rhynsdorp.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--_Corm_ 2·5 cm. diameter, depressed-globose, covered with
+fibrous tunics. _Produced leaves_ 4; lowest leaf with a
+lanceolate-linear blade, 6·5 cm. long, 8 mm. broad, prominently
+2-ribbed; upper leaves up to 30 cm. long, 5 to 8 mm. broad, linear,
+acuminate, acute, with 2 of the ribs more prominent than the others,
+glabrous. _Inflorescence_ about half as long as the leaves, laxly
+few-flowered. _Perianth_ very unequal; the uppermost segment long-clawed
+and with an oblong obtuse blade membranous on the margins, arched over
+the flower and the style and stamens; side segments broadly ovate,
+clawed, and produced into an acuminate point; lower segments more or
+less forming a lip, spathulate, long-clawed, obtuse. _Stamens_ arched
+under the uppermost segment and completely hidden by it. _Style_ arched
+under the uppermost segment, projecting beyond its apex; lobes
+spathulate, papillose round the edges. (National Herb. Pretoria, No.
+2858.)
+
+     PLATE 165.--Fig. 1, plant much reduced; Fig. 2, median longitudinal
+     section of flower; Fig. 3, corm; Fig. 4, spathe-valve; Fig. 5,
+     stamen; Fig. 6, top of style showing the 3 stigmas; Fig. 7, fruit.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 166.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 166.
+
+LACHENALIA TRICOLOR.
+var. LUTEOLA.
+
+_Cape Province._
+
+
+LILIACEAE. Tribe SCILLEAE.
+
+LACHENALIA, _Jacq._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 807.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Lachenalia tricolor=, _Thunb._ var. =luteola=, _Baker_.; _Jacq. Collect._ vol. iv.
+p. 148; _Ic._ vol. ii. p. 16, t. 395; _Fl. Cap._ vol. vi. p. 424.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The _Lachenalia_ figured on the accompanying plate is among the most
+graceful species in the genus. It is closely allied to _L. pendula_,
+illustrated on Plate 158, but is distinguished by having the inner
+perianth-segments much longer than the outer. The plant was known to
+horticulturists in Europe almost 150 years ago, and was figured in
+colour between 1786 and 1793 by Jacquin, and again in the _Botanical
+Magazine_ in 1807.
+
+_L. tricolor_ grows in the sandy parts of the Cape Province, but lends
+itself to cultivation in pots. It has been successfully grown at Irene,
+near Pretoria, by Dr. I. B. Pole Evans, C.M.G., from bulbs supplied by
+Lady Smartt of “Glen Ban,” Stellenbosch, C.P., and from these specimens
+our illustration was made.
+
+In the young flowering stage the buds are quite green, but become yellow
+in the lower half as they grow older, while in the adult flower the
+colour is a deep chrome (R. C. S.).
+
+DESCRIPTION:--_Bulb_ globose, 1·3 cm. in diameter, with long white roots
+from the base. _Leaves_ 2, up to 17 cm. long, 2·5 cm. broad at the base,
+2 cm. broad above, strap-shaped, obtuse, glabrous. _Peduncle_ up to 16
+cm. long, terete, green, spotted with brown. _Flowers_ racemose,
+pendulous, each flower arising from a small pocket formed by the bract.
+_Bract_ 3 mm. long, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, with a conical blunt spur.
+_Outer perianth-segments_ 1·6 cm. long, oblong, obtuse, one slightly
+beaked below the apex; inner segments 2·6 cm. long, widened upwards,
+obtuse. Stamens hardly exerted. _Style_ as long as the stamens,
+penicillate at the apex. (National Herb. Pretoria, No. 2857.)
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PLATE 166.--Fig. 1, whole plant much reduced; Fig. 2, median
+longitudinal section of the flower; Fig. 3, bulb; Fig. 4, part of
+peduncle showing pocket-like bracts; Fig. 5, stamen; Fig. 6, upper
+portion of style showing stigma.
+
+F.P.S.A., 1925. [Illustration: 167.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 167.
+
+CRASSULA ROSULARIS.
+
+_Cape Province_, _Natal_.
+
+
+CRASSULACEAE.
+
+CRASSULA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. i. p. 657.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Crassula rosularis=, _Harv._; _Fl. Cap._ vol. ii. p. 350.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_Crassula rosularis_ belongs to the section _Rosulares_, which is
+characterised by having rosulate flat radical leaves and a scape-like
+flowering stem. Unlike so many species of _Crassula_, it is a
+shade-loving plant.
+
+The plant from which our illustration was made was found growing under
+Aloes near Greytown in Natal, whence it extends southwards to Uitenhage.
+It is a dainty little plant, and would thrive on a shaded rockery if
+supplied with humus and a fair amount of moisture. In its choice of
+habitat it resembles very much _C. flabellifolia_, _C. Saxifraga_ and
+_C. Septas_.
+
+We are indebted to Lady Leuchars for the specimens.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--An acaulescent plant. _Leaves_ rosulate, radical; lower
+leaves spathulate-oblong, about 5 cm. long; the upper leaves becoming
+gradually smaller and broadly ovate; all with cartilaginous-ciliated
+margins. _Peduncle_ scape-like, glabrous. _Flowers_ in peduncled cymes,
+arranged in a panicle on a common peduncle. _Pedicels_ about 2 mm. long.
+_Calyx_ half as long as the corolla; lobes lanceolate-oblong, ciliate.
+_Petals_ obovate-oblong, with a dorsal apiculus just below the apex.
+_Stamens_ 5, almost as long as the petals and alternating with them.
+_Glands_ of 5 scales opposite the carpels. _Carpels_ 5; styles short;
+stigmas capitate. (National Herb. Pretoria, No. 2859.)
+
+     PLATE 167.--Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2,
+     carpels; Fig. 3, stamens.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 168.]
+
+
+
+PLATE 168.
+
+LISSOCHILUS SPECIOSUS.
+
+_Cape Province, Natal, Transvaal._
+
+
+ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe Vandeae.
+
+LISSOCHILUS, _R. Br._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 536.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Lissochilus speciosus=, _R. Br._ ex _Lindl. Coll. Bot._ t. 31; _Fl. Cap._ vol. v.
+sect. iii. p. 59.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_Lissochilus speciosus_ is one of the more common species of the genus
+and has a wide range of distribution. It is found in the Uitenhage
+Division, and then follows the coastal belt northwards, through the
+Transkei into Natal, and up to the northern spurs of the Drakensbergen
+in the Transvaal. The species has also been recorded from Mazoe in
+Rhodesia. Robert Brown’s genus _Lissochilus_, which he founded in 1821,
+was based on this species. But the late Dr. H. Bolus placed it in the
+genus _Eulophia_, and redescribed the plant as _Eulophia speciosa_ in
+1890, and figured it under the same name in 1911 (_Orchids of South
+Africa_, vol. ii. t. 13).
+
+The specimen from which our plate was made was found by Misses H. Forbes
+and S. Gower at Isipingo, Natal, and grown at the Division of Botany,
+Pretoria. It is common all along the slopes of the sandhills of the
+Southern Natal coast.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--Pseudobulbs ovoid, 5 cm. or more long, with a few ovate
+sheaths, 3-to 5-leaved; leaves elongate, linear, acute, somewhat fleshy,
+without prominent veins, conduplicate below, not articulated above the
+base, 15 to 30 cm. or more long, 2 to 2·5 cm. or more broad; scapes
+erect, stout, up to nearly 1 m. long, with several spathaceous sheaths;
+racemes long, somewhat lax, many flowered, flowers medium-sized, bracts
+ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2 to 2·5 cm. long; pedicels
+2 to 2·5 cm. long; sepals ovate to ovate-oblong, subacute or acute,
+reflexed, green, about 1 cm. long; petals spreading, broadly ovate or
+ovate-suborbicular, subobtuse, about 2 cm. long, bright yellow; lip
+3-lobed, nearly as long as the petals; side-lobes suberect, short and
+transversely oblong, white with a few reddish lines; front lobe broadly
+elliptic, obtuse, reflexed at the sides, yellow with a few reddish lines
+at the base; disc convex, with 3 obtuse keels; spur very short, broadly
+conical, obtuse, column oblong, 6 mm. long (_Flora Capensis_).
+
+     PLATE 168.--Fig. 1, plant much reduced: Fig. 2, median longitudinal
+     section of flower; Fig. 3, bract; Fig. 4, anthers; Fig. 5, back
+     view of anthers.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 169.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 169.
+
+ALOE FEROX.
+
+_Cape Province_, _Natal_, _Transvaal_.
+
+
+LILIACEAE. Tribe ALOINEAE.
+
+ALOE, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 776.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Aloe ferox=, _Miller, Gard. Dict._ ed. viii. No. 22; _Fl. Cap._ vol. vi. p. 326.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This species of _Aloe_ is unique among the South African representatives
+of the genus as being of some economic importance. The thick juice of
+the leaves yields the commercial product “aloes.” The method of
+preparing “aloes” is as follows: A hole is scooped in the ground and
+lined with a skin, and the cut ends of the leaves are placed on the skin
+so that the juice exudes and collects. The thick juice is then heated,
+and on cooling the “aloes” crystallise out.
+
+_Aloe ferox_ is very common in parts of the south-eastern Cape Province
+and in the midlands of Natal, and the plants form a very characteristic
+feature in the landscape. Plants may reach a height of 8 to 12 feet, and
+the simple stem is crowned with a dense rosette of leaves, while the
+lower portion of the stem is covered with the remains of the leaves.
+
+Our plate was prepared from a specimen flowering at the Division of
+Botany, Pretoria.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--_Stem_ simple. _Leaves_ many in a dense terminal rosette,
+varying from 0·5 to 1 m. long, 10 to 15 cm. broad below and gradually
+narrowing above, convex on the lower surface, concave on the upper
+surface, prickly on the edges; prickles stout, slightly recurved.
+_Inflorescence_ a terminal branched raceme. _Racemes_ up to 0·6 m. long,
+very dense. _Bracts_ ovate, cuspidate. _Perianth-segments_ 1·3 cm. long,
+8 mm. broad, oblong, cucullate at the apex. _Filaments_ linear; anthers
+not much broader than the filaments. _Style_ cylindric, stigma simple.
+
+     PLATE 169.--Fig. 1, leaf (× 1/8); Fig. 2, margin of leaf showing
+     prickles; Fig. 3, cross-section of leaf; Fig. 4, bract; Fig. 5,
+     flower bud; Fig. 6, mature flower; Fig. 7, perianth-segments; Fig.
+     8, portion of inner and outer perianth-segments; Fig. 9, stamens,
+     front and back view.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 170.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 170.
+
+LEUCADENDRON HUMIFUSUM.
+
+_Cape Province._
+
+PROTEACEAE. Tribe PROTEAE.
+
+LEUCADENDRON, _R. Br._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 169.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Leucadendron humifusum=, _E. Mey. in Drege, Zwei. Pfl. Documente_,
+pp. 64, 118, 198; _Fl. Cap._ vol. v. sect. i. p. 549.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This interesting species of _Leucadendron_ was first collected by Drege
+between the years 1826 and 1829, and then completely lost sight of, as
+none of the later collectors are credited with finding it again. In
+August, 1922, Mr. T. P. Stokoe came across the plant on the Hottentot
+Holland Mountains, and thus had the honour of bringing to the notice of
+South African botanists a species which had not been collected for
+almost one hundred years. We take this opportunity of giving a fuller
+description of the plant than that appearing in the _Flora Capensis_,
+and describe the female plant for the first time.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--A shrub. _Branches_ tomentose, at length becoming
+glabrous. _Leaves_ 3·5 to 7 cm. long, 0·7 to 1·6 cm. broad (those
+surrounding the heads a little larger), oblong or oblong-lanceolate,
+with a blunt callous apex, slightly narrowed to a rather broad base,
+with 3 distinct veins from above the base, glabrous. _Male head_
+sessile, 2·5 to 3 cm. long (including the flowers), 2·5 cm. in diameter,
+surrounded by about 8 series of involucral bracts. _Involucral bracts_
+1·15 to 1·3 cm. long, 8 to 8·5 mm. broad, oblong, the outer shortly
+cuspidate and with ciliated margins, inner rounded at the apex and
+without cilia, all glabrous. _Receptacle_ 1 cm. high, 1 cm. in diameter,
+club-shaped. _Perianth-tube_ 7 mm. long, somewhat compressed, glabrous;
+lobes 8 mm. long, linear, obtuse at the apex, glabrous. _Anthers_ 5 mm.
+long, linear. _Style_ 1·1 cm. long, terete, pilose below; stigma faintly
+two-lobed. _Female-head_ 1·6 cm. long, 2 cm. in diameter, surrounded by
+about 4 series of involucral bracts. _Involucral bracts_ 1·2 to 1·5 cm.
+long, up to 1·4 cm. broad, ovate, shortly cuspidate, obtuse, the outer
+ciliated, the inner without cilia, all glabrous. _Receptacle_ 1 cm.
+high, 6 mm. broad, conical. _Perianth-tube_ 8 mm. long, compressed,
+long-pilose; limb 2 mm. long, linear, obtuse, glabrous. _Staminodes_
+0·75 mm. long. _Ovary_ 1 mm. long, 0·75 mm. in diameter, ellipsoid,
+pilose; style 1 cm. long, linear, gradually narrowing to the base;
+stigma flat and oblique.
+
+     PLATE 170.--Fig. 1, female head; Fig. 2, bract; Fig. 3,
+     longitudinal section of female head; Fig. 4, female flower; Fig. 5,
+     pistil; Fig. 6, male head; Fig. 7, bract; Fig. 8, longitudinal
+     section of male head; Fig. 9, male flower.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 171.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 171.
+
+ALOE MARLOTHII.
+
+_Transvaal._
+
+LILACEAE. Tribe ALOINEAE.
+
+ALOE, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 776.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Aloe Marlothii=, _Berger in Engl. Bot. Jahrb._ vol. xxxviii. p. 87.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_Aloe Marlothii_ is a very close ally of _A. ferox_ figured on Plate
+169, but a careful comparison of the two will show points of difference
+which enables one to distinguish the two species. The inflorescence in
+_A. Marlothii_ has the primary branches horizontal and the flowers are
+more or less on one side of the axis, and not arranged so as to form a
+cylindric raceme, as in _A. ferox_. The leaves of the species also
+differ, those of _A. Marlothii_ being concave-convex in cross-section
+and with both the upper and lower surfaces bearing prickles, while in
+_A. ferox_ the leaf is biconvex in cross-section.
+
+Plants of _A. Marlothii_ up to 15 ft. high are often found, and they
+make a very ornamental show in the rockery.
+
+Our plate was prepared from specimens grown at the Division of Botany,
+Pretoria.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--_Leaves_ up to 1 m. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,
+acute, concave-convex in cross-section, prickly on the face and back,
+with the margins armed with prickles. _Inflorescence_ a branched raceme,
+with the primary branches horizontal. _Flowers_ more or less secund.
+_Bracts_ broadly ovate, shortly acuminate. _Perianth_ tubular. _Stamens_
+at length exserted. _Ovary_ ellipsoid, style cylindric, at length
+exserted; stigma small.
+
+     PLATE 171.--Fig. 1, plant, much reduced; Fig. 2, median
+     longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 3, bract; Fig. 4, part of
+     stamen; Fig. 5, pistil.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 172.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 172.
+
+HYPOXIS ROOPERI.
+
+_Basutoland_, _Cape Province_, _Natal_, _Transvaal_.
+
+
+AMARYLLIDACEAE. Tribe HYPOXIDEAE.
+
+HYPOXIS, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 717.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Hypoxis Rooperi=, _Moore in Gard. Comp. 1_, 65, cum icone; _Fl. Cap._
+vol. vi. p. 188.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The accompanying plate is our first illustration of a characteristic
+South African genus, namely, _Hypoxis_. The genus contains over sixty
+species, of which number more than forty are found in the Union, the
+remainder being natives of tropical Africa, tropical Asia, Australia and
+America.
+
+The species is acaulescent, with a large underground corm crowned with a
+ring of bristles, and bears a number of distichous leaves. The
+flower-stalks arise from the axils of the leaves.
+
+It is quite a common plant in the south-eastern portion of the Cape
+Province, and extends through East Griqualand into Natal and northwards
+into the Drakensbergen round Barberton. It has, however, also been
+recorded from the Potchefstroom District in the Transvaal.
+
+In winter the leaves die down, but appear again as soon as the frosts
+cease, and sometimes long before the summer rains commence the plants
+are in full bloom in the veld.
+
+Our plate was prepared from specimens flowering at the Division of
+Botany, Pretoria.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--_Leaves_ up to 30 cm. long, 3·2 cm. broad, strap-shaped,
+narrowing upwards, falcate, folded from the midrib, closely and
+distinctly ribbed, almost glabrous on the upper surface, softly pilose
+on the back and margins. _Peduncles_ much shorter than the leaves,
+villous. _Bracts_ 1·3 cm. long, linear, acute, villous on the back.
+_Pedicels_ up to 1·6 cm. long, villous. _Outer perianth-segments_ 2·2
+cm. long, 8 mm. broad, oblong, obtuse; inner segments 2·1 cm. long, 1·5
+cm. broad, elliptic, obtuse. _Filaments_ shorter than the anthers.
+_Ovary_ subglobose, villous, stigmas 3-lobed, papillose on the margins.
+
+     PLATE 172.--Fig. 1, plant, much reduced; Fig. 2, portion of
+     peduncle showing bracts and part of pedicels; Fig. 3, flower,
+     surface view; Fig. 4, flower, back view; Fig. 5, anthers; Fig. 6,
+     stigma, side and top views; Fig. 7, transverse section of ovary.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 173.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 173.
+
+CRASSULA COLUMNARIS.
+
+_Cape Province._
+
+
+CRASSULACEAE.
+
+CRASSULA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. i. p. 657.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Crossula columnaris=, _Linn. f. Suppl. 191_; _Fl. Cap._ vol. ii. p. 358.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This quaint little _Crassula_ may be found in parts of the Karroo and
+also in Namaqualand. It has on several occasions been collected in the
+neighbourhood of Matjesfontein and Ceres. In its native home, where it
+is usually exposed to the full force of the sun’s rays, it is far more
+compact than is shown in our illustration, which was made from a plant
+grown partly in the shelter of a tree. It is easily cultivated on the
+rockery if not kept too moist, as an abundance of water causes the plant
+to rot. It is a charming object when in flower, and growers of South
+African succulents should certainly try to secure specimens of this
+species, as in shape it is more or less unique in the genus _Crassula_.
+
+Our plate was prepared from specimens presented by Mr. A. J. Austin of
+Matjesfontein, and grown at the Division of Botany, Pretoria. We are
+indebted to Dr. R. Marloth for a photograph of the plant as it grows,
+and part of the plate has been prepared from this.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--_Leaves_ 2·8 cm. broad, usually less than 1 cm. long,
+deeply concave on the inner face. _Inflorescence_ a compact globose
+head. _Calyx_ shortly campanulate at the base; lobes linear-spathulate,
+fringed above with papillose hairs. _Corolla_ somewhat ventricose below,
+tubular above; lobes linear-spathulate. _Stamens_ much shorter than the
+corolla-lobes. _Hypogynous glands_ spathulate above, narrowed into a
+long claw. _Carpels_ ventricose below, narrowed upwards, somewhat
+recurved above.
+
+     PLATE 173.--Fig. 1, a single leaf and cross-section of leaf; Fig.
+     2, single flower; Fig. 3, corolla laid open showing the stamens;
+     Fig. 4, calyx-lobe, much enlarged; Fig. 5, corolla-lobe, enlarged;
+     Fig. 6, gynaecium, showing hypogynous glands.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 174.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 174.
+
+SENECIO TAMOIDES.
+
+_Cape Province, Natal, Transvaal._
+
+COMPOSITAE. Tribe SENECIONIDEAE.
+
+SENECIO, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. ii. p. 446.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Senecis tamoides=, _DC. Prodr._ vol. vi. p. 403; _Fl. Cap._ vol. iii. p. 404.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The species here figured belongs to a small group of species in the
+genus (Section _Scandentes_), which is characterised by its members
+being climbing, half-climbing or trailing plants. _Senecio tamoides_ is
+a very common plant in the bush and the coastal belt, and its large
+trusses of bright yellow, honey-scented flowers show up in strong
+contrast against the background of dark green foliage. At Durban, Natal,
+the flowers are frequently attacked by an insect, and as a result a gall
+is formed inside the flower head. The gall enlarges into a cylindric
+green body much longer than the flower-head, and each contains a single
+larva.
+
+_Senecio tamoides_ has been recorded from the Chipete Forest in
+Rhodesia, and was also collected by Mr. E. E. Galpin, F.L.S., at
+Barberton in the Transvaal.
+
+Our illustration was made from specimens collected by Miss K. A.
+Lansdell on the Berea, Durban.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--A climbing herb. _Branches_ glabrous. _Leaves_ 2·2 to 5·5
+cm. long, 2·7 to 6 cm. broad, ovate, acuminate, subobtuse, somewhat
+hastate, with the margins acutely lobulate, glabrous. _Inflorescence_ a
+many-headed corymb. _Involucral-bracts_ about 6, 8 mm. long, 2 mm.
+broad, oblong-linear, obtuse, with membranous margins. _Ray-florets_:
+_Tube_ 5 mm. long, cylindric; limb 6·5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, oblong.
+_Style_ exserted; style branches filiform. _Disc-florets_ male,
+cylindric, 6·5 mm. long, lobes ·75 mm. long, linear, obtuse. _Anthers_
+blunt. _Style-branches_ linear, truncate. _Ovary_ infertile, 3 mm. long,
+cylindric, ribbed, glabrous. _Pappus_ copious.
+
+     PLATE 174.--Fig. 1, ray-floret; Fig. 2, disc-floret.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+
+[Illustration: 175.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 175.
+
+GLADIOLUS TRISTIS.
+
+_Cape Province._
+
+LILIACEAE. Tribe IXIEAE.
+
+GLADIOLUS, _Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 709.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Gladiolus tristis=, _Linn. Sp. Plant._ ed. 2, i. 53, ex parte; _Fl. Cap._
+vol. vi. p. 139.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+There appears to be a great deal of confusion between this species of
+_Gladiolus_ and _G. grandis_, even among the specimens quoted under
+these species in the “Flora Capensis”; and possibly when a large range
+of living specimens is examined the two species now upheld will be
+referred to a single species. _Gladiolus tristis_ is quite a handsome
+member of the genus, and while not so highly coloured as some, the large
+semi-translucent flowers with such delicate markings have a charm of
+their own; besides which, the flowers are very sweetly scented. The
+species is readily raised from seed, and under proper cultivation it
+flowers about fifteen months after sowing.
+
+Our plate was made from plants grown by Dr. I. B. Pole Evans, C.M.G., at
+Irene near Pretoria.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--_Corm_ 1·5 cm. in diameter, globose. _Produced leaves_ 2
+or 3; the lowest up to 36 cm. long, 4-angled, appearing as a cross in
+transverse section, glabrous; upper leaves similar but shorter.
+_Inflorescence_ usually 3-flowered. _Outer spathe-valves_ 3·5 cm. long,
+lanceolate-oblong, acute; inner spathe-valve similar, but slightly
+curved and gradually narrowing upwards; lobes 3·5 cm. long, 2·8 cm.
+broad, ovate, bluntly acuminate, obtuse minutely apiculate. _Stamens_
+shorter than the style. _Style-branches_ cuneate, papillose on the
+margins.
+
+     PLATE 175.--Fig. 1, plant, much reduced; Fig. 2, corm, showing
+     bulbil; Fig. 3, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 4,
+     portion of leaf; Fig. 5, cross-section of leaf; Fig. 6, anther with
+     part of filament; Fig. 7, stigmae with part of style; Fig. 8,
+     ovary.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+
+[Illustration: 176.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 176.
+
+SARCOPHYTE SANGUINEA.
+
+_Cape Province._
+
+BALANOPHORACEAE. Tribe SARCOPHYTEAE.
+
+SARCOPHYTE, _Sparrm._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 234.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Sarcophyte sanguinea=, _Sparrm. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1776_,
+300, t. 7; _Fl. Cap._ vol. v. sect. ii. p. 213.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The family _Balanophoraceae_, to which our plant belongs, comprises
+plants all of which are parasitic on the roots of trees and shrubs.
+There are about fifty species, spread over about fifteen genera, widely
+distributed in tropical and sub-tropical regions. In South Africa the
+family is represented by two genera and four species.
+
+_Sarcophyte sanguinea_ is usually found as a parasite on the roots of
+_Acacia Karroo_, but so far as we know does not follow the same
+distribution as its host, but is confined to the eastern portion of the
+Cape Province. The plant really consists of a large inflorescence
+arising from the ground, and the two sexes are distinct. When in flower
+it has a most objectionable stench, so much so that the presence of a
+plant is known long before it is actually seen.
+
+The accompanying plate illustrates a male plant.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--Male plant about 30 cm. high. _Root-stock_ thick,
+irregularly lobed, verrucose; stem short erect; leaves reduced to oblong
+obtuse or subacute scales up to 2 cm. long and 1·2 cm. wide.
+_Inflorescence_ much-branched; flowers usually in pairs on short
+pedicels which are connate below. _Perianth-segments_ navicular, almost
+patent, very thick and fleshy, subacute, 4 mm. long, 2·5 mm. wide;
+filaments 3 to nearly 4 mm. long, cylindrical; anthers terminal,
+scarcely wider than the filaments. Female plants very similar to the
+male, but rather shorter, flowers numerous in subglobose shortly stalked
+heads about 6 mm. in diameter. _Ovary_ 1-3-celled; ovule solitary,
+pendulous; stigma discoid, sessile; fruit a syncarpium; seed about 1 mm.
+long (_Flora Capensis_).
+
+     PLATE 176.--Fig. 1, scale-like leaf; Fig. 2, portion of male
+     inflorescence; Fig. 3, single male flower, showing the three
+     perianth-segments and the 3 stamens; Fig. 4, single stamen.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+
+[Illustration: 177.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 177.
+
+PROTEA PITYPHYLLA.
+
+_Cape Province._
+
+PROTEACEAE. Tribe PROTEAE.
+
+PROTEA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 169.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Protea pityphylla=, _Phillips in Kew Bulletin_, 1910, 234; _Fl. Cap._ vol. v.
+sect. i. p. 594.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+We have pleasure in showing for the first time this species of _Protea_,
+hitherto not figured in botanical publications. On a previous occasion
+we published an illustration of a broad-leaved variety, _P. pityphylla_,
+var. _latifolia_ (see Plate 108). Another variety with short leaves
+resembling those of _P. rosacea_ has been collected in the Ronde
+Bokkeveld, but it may be at once distinguished from this species by the
+foliaceous appendages of the outer bracts.
+
+The late Dr. MacOwan distributed the species as a “sp. nov.” in 1888,
+and it is only within recent years that it has been at all largely
+collected.
+
+The species has been successfully cultivated at the National Botanic
+Gardens, Kirstenbosch, and is well worth the attention of gardeners
+interested in plants typically South African.
+
+Our plate was prepared from specimens presented by Dr. R. Marloth.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--_Branches_ glabrous; leaves 6 to 8 cm. long, about 1 mm.
+wide, needle-shaped, acute, pungent, channelled and prominently costate
+on the upper face, glabrous. _Head_, sessile, 4 to 4·5 cm. long, about
+6·5 cm. in diameter, cernuous. _Involucral-bracts_ 7-seriate, glabrous;
+outer ovate, acuminate, obtuse or acute, the lowest produced into long
+foliaceous appendages resembling the leaves, inner oblong, slightly
+concave, exceeding the flowers. _Perianth-sheath_ 1·5 cm. long, dilated,
+3-keeled and 7-nerved below, scarious, rufously setulose within in the
+upper part, otherwise glabrous; lip 5 mm. long, 3-toothed, 3-keeled,
+setose below; teeth subequal, 0·5 mm. long. _Stamens_ all fertile;
+filaments 0·5 mm. long, dilated, concave; anthers oblong-linear, 3 mm.
+long, apical glands 0·25 mm. long, ovate, subacute, somewhat swollen on
+the inner face. _Ovary_ 2 mm. long, obovate-oblong, covered with long
+reddish-yellow hairs; hypogynous scales 1 mm. long, oval-oblong; style
+up to 2·2 cm. long, widened and much compressed from the base upwards
+for 6 mm., then much constricted and strongly bent and subulate, the
+slender portion obliquely arching inwards, glabrous: stigma 3 mm. long,
+obtuse (_Flora Capensis_).
+
+     PLATE 177.--Fig. 1, single flower; Fig. 2, single flower opened;
+     Fig. 3, lip of perianth-segments showing the three stamens; Fig. 4,
+     receptacle.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+
+[Illustration: 178.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 178.
+
+ALOE RUPESTRIS.
+
+_Namaqualand._
+
+LILIACEAE. Tribe ALOINEAE.
+
+ALOE, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 776.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Aloe rupestris=, _Baker in Flora Capensis_, vol. vi. p. 326.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+This remarkable _Aloe_ belongs to the same section of the genus as _A.
+ferox_, which we figured on Plate 169, but differs in having leaves
+which are not prickly on the under surface. It is only found, so far as
+we know, in Namaqualand, where it grows on rocky ground, and was first
+distributed by MacOwan. The locality from which the original specimens
+came was between Port Nolloth and Spektakel. The plant grows to a height
+of 10 to 12 feet, and produces a large terminal panicle of racemes which
+overtops the leaves. The young flowers are greenish-yellow in colour,
+but become red when adult. This difference in colour between the young
+and adult flowers is not an uncommon character in the genus, and we have
+noted it before in _A. Wickensii_ (Plate 41).
+
+The plant from which our plate was prepared was presented by Dr. R.
+Marloth, and flowered at the Division of Botany, Pretoria, in September
+1924.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--_Stem_ almost 2 m. high, thick. _Leaves_ in a rosette at
+the apex of the stem, up to 60 cm. long, 5 cm. broad near the base,
+lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, not prickly on either side, with small
+deltoid marginal teeth. _Inflorescence_ much-branched; racemes dense, 15
+to 20 cm. long. _Bracts_ small. _Pedicels_ short. _Perianth_ over 2 cm.
+long; segments divided almost to the base, oblong, with a distinct green
+keel. _Stamens_ and _style_ much exserted.
+
+     PLATE 178.--Fig. 1, plant, much reduced; Fig. 2, median
+     longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 3, flowers in various stages
+     of development; Fig. 4, stamen; Fig. 5, apex of style.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+
+[Illustration: 179.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 179.
+
+SENECIO FULGENS.
+
+_Natal, Transvaal._
+
+COMPOSITAE. Tribe SENECIONIDEAE.
+
+SENECIO, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. ii. p. 446.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Senecio fulgens=, _Nicholson Dict. Gard._ vol. iii. p. 420; Kleinia
+fulgens, _Hook. Bot. Mag._ t. 5590.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+This species of _Senecio_ belongs to the section _Kelinoidei_ of the
+genus, to which section _Senecio stapelliaeformis_, figured on Plate 28,
+is also referred. The species was first introduced into England from
+Natal by a Mr. Plant in 1886, and flowered at Kew the same year. From
+these specimens the plate in the “Botanical Magazine” was made.
+
+A comparison of the present plate with that of the “Botanical Magazine”
+quoted above will show that our plant has a more lax habit, and this is
+to be explained by the fact that it is growing under the shelter of a
+large tree. The shape and dentition of the leaves vary considerably. The
+young leaves are narrowly (1·5 cm.) lanceolate, while adult leaves are
+broadly (4·5 cm.) obovate. Some of the leaves are quite entire, while
+others are remotely toothed. All these variations are found on the same
+plant. On young branches the leaves are grouped in more or less of a
+rosette at the apex of the branch.
+
+The species is well worthy of cultivation, as it grows luxuriantly and
+flowers profusely, and often produces flowering stems over 30 cm. long.
+The flowers are coral-red (R.C.S., Plate XIII).
+
+DESCRIPTION:--A herbaceous shrub up to ·6 m. high. _Leaves_ more or less
+crowded at the base, 6 to 12 cm. long, 1·5 to 4·5 cm. broad, lanceolate,
+lanceolate-obovate to obovate, narrowed at the base, entire or remotely
+toothed, glaucous, fleshy; the older leaves channelled on the upper
+surface in the lower portion and distinctly keeled beneath. _Flowering
+stems_ up to 30 cm. long, with scattered leaves 2 to 9 cm. apart, which
+decrease in size upwards, usually simple. _Heads_ homogamous, solitary.
+_Involucral-bracts_ 1·9 cm. long, concrete, forming a tube 1 cm. in
+diameter and oblong in outline, produced into nine lanceolate lobes
+above. _Receptacle_ slightly concave. _Corolla-tube_ 1·9 cm. long,
+cylindric, very gradually widening upwards; lobes 2 mm. long, spreading,
+ovate-oblong, obtuse. _Anthers_ blunt at the base, with a lanceolate
+apical appendage. _Style-branches_ much recurved, obtuse, with marginal
+papillae. _Ovary_ 5 mm. long, cylindric, glabrous. _Pappus_ 1·2 cm.
+long, of many fine bristles. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2738.)
+
+     PLATE 179.--Fig. 1, plant, much reduced; Fig. 2, cross-section of
+     leaf; Fig. 3, longitudinal section of head; Fig. 4, median
+     longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 5, anthers; Fig. 6, style;
+     Fig. 7, fruit and pappus.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+
+[Illustration: 180.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 180.
+
+ALOE SESSILIFLORA.
+
+_Transvaal._
+
+LILIACEAE. Tribe ALOINEAE.
+
+ALOE, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 776.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Aloe sessiliflora=, _Pole Evans in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr._ vol. v. p. 708.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The species of _Aloe_ figured on the accompanying plate belongs to the
+less conspicuous members of the genus. The small cream-yellow flowers do
+not make the inflorescence very attractive. _Aloe sessiliflora_ was
+collected in the Barberton District by Mr. J. E. Wickens, and flowered
+at the Union Buildings for the first time in June and July of 1914. Mr.
+Geo. Thorncroft subsequently collected the plant near Barberton. During
+the winter months the leaves are of a distinct reddish colour, while in
+summer they are bright green. The flowers contain drops of very dark
+nectar at the base of the perianth.
+
+Our plate was made from specimens growing at the Division of Botany,
+Pretoria.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--_Stem_ up to 90 cm. high. _Leaves_ in a dense rosette at
+the apex of the stem, 45 to 60 cm. long. 6 to 8 cm. broad, spreading or
+recurved, fleshy, channelled above, convex beneath, with the margins
+toothed. _Peduncle_ simple, 60 to 75 cm. long, laterally compressed,
+covered with numerous oblong brown bracts. _Spike_ densely
+many-flowered, more or less cylindric; bracts 10 mm. long, 7 mm. wide,
+ovate-cuspidate, 3-nerved. _Flowers_ campanulate-cylindric; perianth 14
+mm. long; segments free; the outer 5 mm. broad, spathulate,
+fleshy-coloured with three longitudinal dark nerves; the inner 8 mm.
+broad, yellowish at the edges and with a reddish or greenish median
+line. _Stamens_ and _style_ protruding 8 to 10 mm. beyond the perianth.
+_Capsule_ 9 to 10 mm. long, cylindric-oblong, enclosed in the dry
+peri-anth. _Seeds_ 3 mm. long, three-angled, greyish, very narrowly
+winged. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2880.)
+
+     PLATE 180.--Fig. 1, habit; Fig. 2, median section of flower; Fig.
+     3, pistil; Fig. 4, stamen; Fig. 5, bract.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 181.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 181.
+
+STAPELIA GIGANTEA var. PALLIDA.
+
+_Transvaal (?)._
+
+
+ASCLEPIADACEAE. Tribe STAPELIEAE.
+
+STAPELIA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. ii. p. 784.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Stapelia gigantea=, _N.E. Br._ var. =Pallida=, _Phillips_ var. nov., a typo
+corolla depressiore differt.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The _Stapelia_ figured on the accompanying Plate is very near _S.
+gigantea_, N.E. Br., from which it differs, however, in having the disc
+portion of the corolla more depressed and being much lighter in colour.
+It appears to be an intermediate form between this species and _S.
+nobilis_, N.E. Br., differing from the latter species in not having such
+a cup-shaped corolla-disc and not having the lobes of the outer corona
+3-toothed. The locality in which the plant is found is not known, and
+the specimen from which our Plate was prepared was kindly presented by
+Dr. A. J. T. Janse, who grew it in his rockery.
+
+Description:--_Stems_ robust, bright green, finely pubescent,
+prominently ridged, with each ridge ending in a tooth-like leaf.
+_Flowers_ solitary. _Pedicel_ 5 cm. long, terete, finely pubescent.
+_Sepals_ 1·1 cm. long, lanceolate, acute, pubescent. _Corolla_ 25 cm. in
+diameter when expanded; lobes 10 cm. long, 3 cm. broad at the base,
+ovate, long-attenuate, pubescent without, transversely rugose and with
+fine purple hairs on the inner face; disc shallowly depressed, covered
+with long soft purple hairs. _Outer_ corona-lobes oblong; inner
+corona-lobes deeply cleft, with the outer lobes plate-like and the inner
+lobes linear. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2891.)
+
+     PLATE 181.--Fig. 1, side view of flower; Fig. 2, corona; Fig. 3,
+     cross-section through stem.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 182.]
+
+
+
+PLATE 182.
+
+GLADIOLUS CRUENTUS.
+
+_Natal, Basutoland._
+
+
+IRIDACEAE. Tribe IXIEAE.
+
+GLADIOLUS, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 709.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Gladiolus cruentus=, _Moore in Gard. Chron._ 1868, 1138; _Bot. Mag._ t. 5810;
+_Fl. Cap._ vol. vi. p. 157.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This is the first opportunity we have had of figuring a species of
+_Gladiolus_ belonging to the section Cardinales. As far as our records
+go the species appears to be little known to botanical science. In 1868
+a Mr. Bull flowered it in his nursery at Chelsea, and it was from
+specimens supplied by Mr. Bull that the Plate in the _Botanical
+Magazine_ was prepared. We are indebted to Mr. L. F. Wacher, who sent us
+specimens from Basutoland in 1923, for information about this beautiful
+plant. Mr. Wacher states that the plant grows in many places in the
+mountain area of Basutoland, and it is probable that the species is
+confined to the high mountain regions of Natal and Basutoland. While we
+have no definite information as to the precise habitat, there appears to
+be little doubt that it favours similar localities to _G. cardinalis_ of
+the Cape Province, which is usually found growing near waterfalls.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--_Corm_ 3·5 cm. in diameter, with thick cylindric roots.
+_Leaves_ about four, 16 to 30 cm. long, 1·5 to 2·5 cm. broad, ensiform,
+glabrous. _Spike_ few-flowered. _Spathe-valves_ large, lanceolate; the
+lower from 7 to 15 cm. long. _Perianth-tube_ funnel-shaped, curved;
+upper segments 5 to 6·5 cm. long, obovate-spathulate; lower segments
+about 4 cm. long, with a white blotch at the throat covered with red
+spots. _Style-branches_ papillose on the margins.
+
+     PLATE 182.--Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2,
+     style showing the style-branches.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 183.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 183.
+
+GAZANIA SUFFRUTICOSA.
+
+_S.W. Africa._
+
+
+COMPOSITAE. Tribe ARCTOTIDEAE.
+
+GAZANIA, _Gaertn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant_, vol. ii. p. 459.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Gazania suffruticosa=, _Muschler in Engl. Bot. Jahrb._ vol. 46, p. 120.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In a collection of succulents received from South-West Africa and
+planted at the Division of Botany, Pretoria, fruits of this _Gazania_
+were evidently mixed with the soil, as a plant grew in the succulent
+bed. It is a somewhat remarkable species and differs considerably in
+habit from the two species previously figured on Plates 51 and 64. The
+whole plant is covered with cobwebby hairs. The leaves are somewhat
+succulent, extremely brittle, and snap when bent; they are also easily
+snapped from the branches.
+
+The single specimen in the garden has made vigorous growth and promises
+to do well under cultivation. It flowered in May of this year.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--A branched herb up to 30 cm. high. _Branches_ cobwebby.
+_Leaves_ 5·5 to 7·5 cm. long, 1 to 1·5 cm. broad above,
+obovate-spathulate, narrowed into a petiole, pungent at the apex,
+irregularly lobed, or toothed, with the lobes and teeth tipped with a
+short pungent mucro, cobwebby above and beneath. _Flower-heads_ in the
+axils of the leaves. _Peduncles_ slightly longer, as long as or shorter
+than the leaves with tufts of cobwebby hairs. _Involucre_ 1·8 cm. long,
+6 mm. in diameter below, the concrete portion oblong in outline,
+inflexed at the base, sparsely cobwebby; outermost lobes 2·5 to 4 mm.
+long, ovate, acute; inner lobes 1 cm. long, ovate, acuminate, acute,
+with membranous margin. _Ray-florets_ neuter; tube 9 mm. long, somewhat
+compressed; limb 1·6 cm. long, 7 mm. broad, obovate-elliptic, yellow,
+with a black eye-spot. _Disc-florets_: tube 7 mm. long, cylindric; lobes
+1·5 mm. long, oblong, shortly acuminate, subobtuse. _Anthers_ minutely
+sagittate at the base. _Ovary_ very villous; style-branches linear,
+obtuse. _Pappus_ of many delicate very narrow scales 5 mm. long.
+
+     PLATE 183.--Fig. 1, involucre; Fig. 2, longitudinal section through
+     involucre; Fig. 3, ray-floret; Fig. 4, disc-floret.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 184.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 184.
+
+LACHENALIA RUBIDA var. TIGRINA.
+
+_Cape Province._
+
+
+LILIACEAE. Tribe SCILLEAE.
+
+LACHENALIA, _Jacq._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 807.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Lachenalia rubida=, _Jacq._ var. =tigrina=, _Bkr. Fl. Cap._ vol. vi. p. 424.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+On Plate 158 we figured a species _Lachenalia pendula_ belonging to the
+same subgenus (_Eulachenalia_) as the species here described.
+_Lachenalia rubida_ is a graceful little plant, though not so handsome
+as some species of the genus. It was figured by Jacquin between the
+years 1786-1793, from plants cultivated in Europe, so that it has been
+known for over 130 years to botanists.
+
+The species appears to be confined to the Clanwilliam, Calvinia and van
+Rhynsdorp Districts of the Cape Province, and as far as our records go
+does not appear to have been frequently collected.
+
+We are indebted to Mrs. E. Rood of van Rhynsdorp for the specimens from
+which our Plate was prepared.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--_Bulb_ 1·5 cm. in diameter at the base, ovoid, white.
+_Produced leaves_ 1 or 2, as long or slightly longer than the naked
+portion of the peduncle, with the free portion 1·8 to 2·2 cm. broad,
+elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, with dark brown blotches on a
+dark green background, sometimes the spots absent, convolute and
+clasping the peduncle for the greater portion of its length. _Peduncle_
+with maroon-coloured spots on a yellowish background; in concolorus
+leaves peduncle almost uniformly coloured. _Inflorescence_ 6-7-flowered.
+_Bracts_ forming small pockets from which the flowers arise. _Pedicels_
+3 mm. long. _Outer perianth-segments_ O·5 cm. shorter than the inner,
+slightly gibbous at the base, thickly speckled with red spots on a
+yellowish background; inner perianth-segments oblong, obtuse. _Stigma_
+capitulate. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2901.)
+
+     PLATE 184.--Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of a flower; Fig.
+     2, single flower; Fig. 3, anthers; Fig. 4, pistil.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 185.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 185.
+
+PROTEA MUNDII.
+
+_Cape Province._
+
+
+PROTEACEAE. Tribe PROTEAE.
+
+_Protea_, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 169.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Protea Mundii=, _Klotz in Otto and Dietr. Garten-Zeit._ 1838, 113; _Fl. Cap._
+vol. v. sect. i. p. 579.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The species of _Protea_ figured on the accompanying Plate represents a
+member of the section _Exertae_ of the genus. This section comprises
+four species which may be readily recognised by the fact that in the
+mature head the perianth is spirally coiled in the open flowers, leaving
+the style exserted. _Protea Mundii_ is closely related to another
+species found in the same localities, viz. _P. lacticolor_, Salisb., and
+the two were confused by E. Meyer, who named them both _P. penicillata_.
+As will be seen from the illustration, the stigma is very distinctly
+capitate at the apex, and as this character is unique in the genus the
+species can be easily recognised.
+
+The plant is found in the mountains round Worcester, extends into the
+George, Knysna and Humansdorp Districts, and then passes through
+Uitenhage and Stutterheim into the Transkei.
+
+The specimens were collected by Dr. I. B. Pole Evans, C.M.G., in the
+George District in July 1925.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--Branches tomentellous to tomentose above. _Leaves_ 4 to 11
+cm. long, 1·2 to 3·2 cm. broad, lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic,
+subobtuse, narrowing at the base, distinctly veined, glabrous or the
+youngest leaves sometimes loosely pilose. _Head_ sessile, 7 to 8 cm.
+long, about 5 cm. in diam. _Involucral-bracts_ 11-12-seriate; outer
+ovate, obtuse, silky on the back, green, ciliate; inner oblong or
+spathulate-oblong, whitish pubescent to tomentose, fringed with white
+cilia, shorter than the styles; perianth-sheath 4 cm. long, slender and
+thin above the middle, gradually dilated and 5-nerved below, not
+keeled, the upper half at length coiled up, loosely hairy; lip 1·5 cm.
+long, tridentate, glabrous, with a dense tuft of hairs at the apex;
+lateral teeth 2 mm. long; median tooth 1·5 mm. long; stamens all
+fertile; filaments 1 mm. long, channelled down the middle; anthers
+linear, 6 mm. long; apical glands 0·5 mm. long, ovate, subacuminate,
+subacute, keeled on the inner face; ovary covered with a tuft of long
+brown hairs; style 5 cm. long, almost straight, keeled on one side,
+compressed above the ovary, then more or less terete, glabrous; stigma 6
+mm. long, furrowed, subcapitate at the apex, abruptly and obliquely
+passing into the much stouter style. (National Herb., Pretoria, No.
+2918.)
+
+     PLATE 185.--Fig. 1, single flower; Fig. 2, receptacle.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 186.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 186.
+
+STRELITZIA REGINAE.
+
+_Cape Province._
+
+
+SCITAMINEAE. Tribe MUSEAE.
+
+STRELITZIA, _Ait. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 656.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Strelitzia Reginae=, _Banks in Ait. Hort. Kew._ ed. 1, i. 285, t. 2; _Fl. Cap._
+vol. v. sect. iii. p. 316.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In 1792 this plant was figured in the _Botanical Magazine_, (Plate 119),
+but had previously been figured by Sir Joseph Banks. _Strelitzia
+Reginae_, which was introduced into the Royal Gardens at Kew in 1773,
+excited a considerable amount of interest when it flowered. In the
+number of the _Botanical Magazine_ quoted above a double Plate was
+devoted to the illustration of the flowers so as to give “readers an
+opportunity of seeing a coloured representation of one of the most
+scarce and magnificent plants introduced into this country.” That the
+plant is a particularly handsome one there can be no doubt and it has
+been appropriately named the “Bird-of-paradise flower”; the Afrikaans
+name is “Gele piesang.” The species is native of the south-eastern and
+eastern districts of the Cape Province.
+
+The specimen illustrated on the accompanying Plate was grown at the
+Division of Botany, Pretoria.
+
+The following description is taken mainly from the _Flora Capensis_.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--Stemless; leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, cuneate at the
+base, up to 0·5 m. long and 10 cm. wide, entire, undulate, especially in
+the lower part, quite glabrous, bright green above, glaucescent beneath;
+petiole up to 1·25 m. long; peduncle as long as the petiole. _Bracts_
+tubular, oblique and acute at the mouth, uppermost one cymbiform,
+acuminate, up to 20 cm. long, green, edged with purple. _Sepals_
+lanceolate, 7 to 10 cm. long, orange-yellow. _Petals_ dark blue, blade
+of the lower two 5 cm. long, with a rounded basal auricle; claw 2·5 cm.
+long; upper petal ovate, 2·5 cm. long. _Stamens_ reaching to the top of
+the longer petals; anthers narrowly linear, twice as long as the
+filaments; style exserted, with 3 linear branches 2·5 cm. long. _Fruit_
+a capsule; seeds covered with reddish woolly hairs. (National Herb.,
+Pretoria, No. 2915.)
+
+     PLATE 186.--Fig. 1, plant much reduced; Fig. 2, median longitudinal
+     section of a flower.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 187.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 187.
+
+ALOE ARBORESCENS var. FRUTESCENS.
+
+_Transvaal._
+
+
+LILIACEAE. Tribe ALOINEAE.
+
+ALOE, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant_, vol. iii. p. 776.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Aloe arborescens=, _Miller, Gard. Chron._ ed. viii. No. 3; var. =frutescens=,
+_Bkr. Fl. Cap._ vol. vi. p. 322.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This _Aloe_ is widely distributed along the eastern mountain range and
+is known to extend northwards as far as the Victoria Falls. The many
+stems which grow together give the plant a bush-like appearance which
+makes a very effective display in a large rockery, and it has the
+advantage over many other species of the genus in that the inflorescence
+is not nipped by a severe frost. The species also lends itself admirably
+to growing on rough stone pillars forming an entrance to a drive.
+
+Our specimen was collected on the hills near Haenertsburg on the
+Drakensbergen in June 1914, and cultivated at the Division of Botany,
+Pretoria.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--An arborescent branched shrub. _Leaves_ up to 0·5 m. long,
+about 4 cm. broad at the base, gradually tapering to the apex, almost
+flat on the upper surface, convex on the lower surface, with ovate
+somewhat incurved teeth 1 cm. apart below, about 1·3 cm. apart above,
+glabrous. _Inflorescence_ solitary or 2-3 from each rosette of leaves,
+unbranched. _Peduncle_ 7 mm. in diameter, cylindric with scattered
+membranous bracts. _Floral-bracts_ membranous, 1·3 cm. long, 9 mm.
+broad, oblong, with straight margins, distinctly veined. _Pedicels_ 2
+cm. long, elongating in the old flowers. _Raceme_ dense, up to 22 cm.
+long. _Young flowers_ erect-spreading, cylindric, with a subacute apex;
+old flowers pendulous. _Perianth_ (in open flowers) 3·2 cm. long; outer
+segments reddish, 5 mm. broad, obtuse; inner segments white, 9 mm.
+broad, with a distinct mid-rib, reddish below, greenish above, obtuse.
+_Stamens_ projecting. _Ovary_ 8 mm. long, cylindric; style 3·2 cm. long,
+cylindric; stigma minute. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2904.)
+
+     PLATE 187.--Fig. 1, young and adult flowers; Fig. 2, median
+     longitudinal section of a flower; Fig. 3, pistil; Fig. 4, bract.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 188.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 188.
+
+DERMATOBOTRYS SAUNDERSII.
+
+_Cape Province, Natal._
+
+
+SCROPHULARIACEAE.
+
+DERMATOBOTRYS, _Bolus in Hook. Ic._ Pl. 1940.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Dermatobotrys Saundersii=, _Bolus in Hook. Ic._ Pl. Zwilt’s 1940; _Fl. Cap._ vol. iv.
+sect. ii. p. 206.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This interesting member of the _Scrophulariaceae_ is peculiar in that it
+grows as an epiphyte on other trees. Miss Pegler records it from the
+Kentani District as growing on the Cape Chestnut (_Calodendron
+capense_). It ranges from Kentani to Zululand. It differs also from most
+members of the family in having 5 well-developed stamens, and for this
+reason was first referred to the family _Solanaceae_, but the straight
+or almost straight embryo indicates an affinity with the family
+_Scrophulariaceae_.
+
+Mr. Saunders, who first collected the plant, described it as a parasite
+which killed the host on which it grew, but the late Dr. Medley Wood
+states that the plant has a tendency to fix itself to trees already
+dead.
+
+We are indebted to Mr. K. B. Jameson, Scottsville, Maritzburg, for the
+specimen from which our illustration was prepared.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--A glabrous epiphytic shrub; root-stock 1·25 m. high, about
+1 cm. thick but increasing towards the top to 5 cm., furrowed
+transversely as in a _Dahlia_ root; rootlets fibrous; stems more or less
+quadrangular; ultimate branchlets 1·5 to 3 mm. thick. _Leaves_ opposite,
+decussate, ovate or elliptical, acute or broadly pointed at the apex,
+more or less narrowed at the entire base, strongly toothed or
+repand-dentate, fleshy, red-veined, turning black-green in the dried
+state, 5 to 15 cm. long, 2·5 to 9 cm. broad; petioles 1 to 5 cm. long.
+_Flowers_ clustered at the nodes on the branchlets, usually three
+together, bracteate at the base, about 4 cm. long; peduncles 1 to 3 mm.
+long, spreading; bract elliptic-linear, acute at both ends, about 2 cm.
+long, 5 mm. broad; calyx-segments lanceolate, acute, glabrous, 3 to 5
+mm. long. _Corolla_ red; tube beset inside towards the base with stiff
+broad white hairs; lobes about 5 mm. long; anthers glabrous; style
+glabrous, slender, tapering towards the stigma. _Ovary_ ovoid-conical,
+glabrous; ripe berry ovoid, blunt, smooth, about 2 cm. long, 1·8 cm.
+broad, green; embryo about 1/3 to 3/4 of the seed in length. (National
+Herb., Pretoria, No. 2917.)
+
+     PLATE 188.--Fig. 1, single flower; Fig. 2, median longitudinal
+     section of flower; Fig. 3, pistil.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 189.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 189.
+
+CRASSULA LATICEPHALA.
+
+_Cape Province._
+
+
+CRASSULACEAE.
+
+CRASSULA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant_, vol. i. p. 657.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Crassula laticephala=, _Schonl. in Rec. Albany Mus._ vol. ii. p. 457.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The dwarf _Crassula_ figured on the accompanying Plate was described by
+Dr. S. Schonland in 1913 from a specimen collected in the Riversdale
+District by Mr. J. E. A. Volschenk. The species is closely allied to _C.
+congesta_, N.E.Br., which we figured on Plate 115, and Dr. Schonland
+suggests that when more material is available it might be considered a
+variety of the latter species.
+
+_Crassula laticephala_ is confined, so far as we know, to the Riversdale
+District, and there only found in the Klein Karroo. We are indebted to
+Dr. J. Muir of Riversdale for the specimen figured.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--A dwarf succulent 4·5 cm. high. _Leaves_ fleshy, 4-ranked,
+strongly reflexed, 3 cm. long, 1·2 cm. broad at the base, ovate,
+acuminate, obtuse, flat above with a distinct keel, somewhat convex
+beneath, scurfy. _Flowers_ in heads 2·5 to 3 cm. in diameter surrounded
+by floral-leaves. _Floral-leaves_ 1·2 cm. long, 1·5 cm. broad at the
+base, ovate, suddenly contracted into a fleshy cylindric appendage.
+_Receptacle_ convex. _Floral-bracts_ 4·5 mm. long, linear, ciliated.
+_Caylx-lobes_ 3 mm. long, linear, cucullate at the apex, ciliate.
+_Petals_ 5·5 mm. long, linear, slightly broadened below, concave.
+_Filaments_ 1 mm. long, slender; anthers 1·25 mm. long, oblong.
+_Carpels_ 2 mm. long. _Hypogynous scales_ transversely oblong, on
+distinct stalks. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2936.)
+     PLATE 189.--Fig. 1, flower-bud; Fig. 2, petal with 2 stamens; Fig.
+     3, carpels; Fig. 4, longitudinal section of head showing convex
+     receptacle; Fig. 5, cross-section through leaf; Fig. 6, leaf.
+
+F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 190.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 190.
+
+HAEMANTHUS ALBIFLOS.
+
+_Cape Province._
+
+
+AMARYLLIDACEAE. Tribe AMARYLLEAE.
+
+HAEMANTHUS, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 730.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Haemanthus albiflos=, _Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr._ i. 31, t. 59; _Fl. Cap._ vol. vi.
+p. 235.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This species of _Haemanthus_ was known to European horticulturists
+almost 150 years ago and was first shown in colour by Jacquin in 1797.
+In the _Botanical Magazine_ it was again figured in 1810 (Plate 1239)
+from plants which flowered in the greenhouse of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy
+of Hammersmith. The plant has been recorded from the Uitenhage, Graaf
+Reinet and Somerset East Divisions of the Cape Province, but does not
+appear to have been extensively collected. In general habit _H.
+albiflos_ resembles _H. natalensis_ figured in Plate 32, but the leaves
+are thicker and more fleshy.
+
+The species responds well to proper cultivation and has been
+successfully grown at the Division of Botany, Pretoria. It was from
+plants grown at Pretoria that our Plate was prepared.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--_Bulb_ tunicated, 4·5 cm. in diameter; tunics fleshy,
+white becoming green. _Leaves_ 4, contemporary with the flowers, 42 to
+46 cm. long, 10 cm. broad at the widest part, tongue-shaped, obtuse,
+narrowed to the base, with ciliated margins, dark green on the upper
+surface, paler on the lower surface. _Peduncle_ 16 cm. long, 1·3 cm. in
+diameter, erect, compressed, glabrous. _Inflorescence_ a dense umbel,
+2·5 cm. in diameter. _Involucral-bracts_ 5, ascending, white with 6 to 9
+distinct green nerves, short mucronate, ciliated with reflexed hairs.
+_Pedicels_ 4 to 5 mm. long, glabrous. Flowers white. _Perianth-tube_
+subcylindric, glabrous; segments 1·7 cm. long, linear, obtuse. _Stamens_
+6; filaments subulate; anthers versatile. _Ovary_ globose, 3 mm. in
+diameter; style subulate; stigma minutely tricuspidate. (National Herb.,
+Pretoria, No. 2933.)
+
+     PLATE 190.--Fig. 1, whole plant, much reduced; Fig. 2, single
+     flower; Fig. 3, involucral bract.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 191.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 191.
+
+CEROPEGIA HAYGARTHII.
+
+_Natal, Cape Province._
+
+
+ASCLEPIADACEAE. Tribe CEROPEGIEAE.
+
+CEROPEGIA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. ii. p. 779.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Ceropegia Haygarthii=, _Schltr. in Engl. Bot.
+Jahrb._ vol. xxxviii. 46, fig. 7 A;
+_Fl. Cap._ vol. v. sect. i. p. 813.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This beautiful species of _Ceropegia_ is almost unique in the genus on
+account of the peculiar formation of the corolla-lobes. The illustration
+should be compared with those given on Plates 39, 44 and 143, and the
+striking differences will then be seen. It is closely related to _C.
+tristis_, Hutch. described on Plate 44, but the corolla-lobes are
+produced into a much longer cylindric portion and the calyx-lobes are
+longer.
+
+The specimen from which our illustration was made flowered in the
+greenhouse at the Division of Botany in July 1925, and like the other
+species of the genus always attracts attention owing to the peculiar
+shape of the flowers.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--_Stem_ climbing, fleshy, 3 to 4 mm. thick, glabrous.
+_Leaves_ small, fleshy, flat, 0·6 to 3·5 cm. long, 0·3 to 2·5 cm. broad,
+ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. _Cymes_ 1-2-flowered, lateral at
+the nodes. _Peduncles_ 2 to 4 cm. long, glabrous. _Bracts_ 2 to 4 mm.
+long, subulate. _Pedicels_ 1 to 1·4 cm. long, glabrous. _Sepals_ 1 cm.
+(0·5 cm., _Schlechter_) long, subulate, glabrous. _Corolla_ abruptly
+bent at a right angle near the base. _Tube_ (following the bend) about
+3·5 cm. long, according to a drawing, or about 2·5 cm. long in dried
+flowers, globosely inflated at the base, cylindric above, enlarging
+(according to a drawing) to about 2 cm. in diam. at the mouth,
+pinkish-white or greenish tinted, spotted with violet, glabrous outside,
+pilose with very fine long hairs within. _Lobes_ free at the base,
+abruptly inflexed over the mouth of the tube and produced beneath into
+broad triangular partition-like green plates or keels, meeting at the
+centre and connate into a slender erect column 1 to 1·4 cm. long, then
+again becoming free and expanding into elliptic-lanceolate replicate
+segments connate at the tips, forming a small apical ellipsoid cage-like
+body 5 to 6 mm. long, ciliate on the margins, dull purple or
+purple-brown. _Corona_ in the flowers seen much eaten by insects, but
+apparently the outer corona is cupular, with 5 acutely bifid lobes
+rising to the level of the top of the staminal column, ciliate and hairy
+within with long fine hairs. _Inner_ corona-lobes 2 mm. long, linear or
+linear-spathulate, connivent-erect over the staminal column, with very
+revolute tips. (_Fl. Cap._--National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2932.)
+
+     PLATE 191.--Fig. 1, calyx; Fig. 2, ground plan of corolla from
+     above; Fig. 3, terminal portion of corolla lobes; Fig. 4, corona.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 192.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 192.
+
+PROTEA HARMERI.
+
+_Cape Province._
+
+
+PROTEACEAE. Tribe PROTEAE.
+
+PROTEA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 169.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Protea Harmeri=, _Phillips in Kew Bulletin 1911_, p. 83; _Fl. Cap._ vol. v.
+sect. i. p. 593.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A comparison of the accompanying Plate should be made with the
+illustration on Plate 108. Both the species figured belong to the same
+section of the genus _Protea_, all characterised by very narrow leaves.
+
+_Protea Harmeri_ was first found by Dr. (now Sir Sydney) Harmer on a
+hill near Matjesfontein when he visited South Africa in 1905; it was
+subsequently collected by Dr. R. Marloth on the Wittebergen and again
+later in the Zwartberg Pass between Oudtshoorn and Prince Albert. The
+specimen figured was collected near the summit of the Zwartberg Pass in
+July 1925. The plant is a bush about 6 ft. high and is extremely
+handsome, as the dark heads show up in strong relief from the
+greyish-green leaves.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--A bush about 1 m. high. _Branches_ greyish tomentellous
+above, becoming glabrous. _Leaves_ 4·5 to 6·5 cm. long, 2·5 to 3·5 mm.
+broad, linear, obtuse to subacute with a callous point attenuated at the
+base, margins recurved; youngest leaves finely villous at the base.
+_Head_ sessile, 2·5 cm. long, about 2·5 cm. in diam., globose;
+receptacle convex. _Involucral-bracts_ 10-11-seriate; outer ovate,
+obtuse, glabrous or the lowest very finely pubescent, with membranous
+ciliate margins; inner oblong-spathulate, obtuse, brick-red, recurved
+above, glabrous or minutely pubescent, not equalling the styles.
+_Perianth-sheath_ 1·5 cm. long, 0·75 mm. broad, dilated above, 3-keeled
+and 3-nerved below, glabrous or hirsute at the apex; lip 4 mm. long,
+3-toothed, rufously setulose, glabrescent on the back; teeth subequal,
+0·25 mm. long, the middle one smaller. _Stamens_ all fertile,
+subsessile; anthers linear, 3 mm. long; apical glands 0·25 mm. long,
+ovate, obtuse, swollen on the inner face. _Ovary_ 2 mm. long,
+oblong-obovate in outline, covered with long brown hairs; hypogynous
+scales 1 mm. long, 0·25 to 0·5 mm. broad, oblong, obtuse; style 2 cm.
+long, falcate, arching over the centre of the head, terete above,
+flattened and hollow below, glabrous; stigma 2·25 mm. long, linear,
+obtuse, grooved, passing into the style. (_Fl. Cap._--National Herb.,
+Pretoria, No. 2916.)
+
+     PLATE 192.--Fig. 1, single flower; Fig. 2, posterior perianth lobe;
+     Fig. 3, pistil; Fig. 4, receptacle.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 193.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 193.
+
+SUTHERLANDIA FRUTESCENS.
+
+_Cape Province, Orange Free State, Natal, Transvaal._
+
+
+LEGUMINOSAE. Tribe GALEGEAE.
+
+SUTHERLANDIA, _R.Br._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. i. p. 503.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Sutherlandia frutescens=, _R.Br. Hort. Kew_. ed. 2, p. 327; _Fl. Cap._ vol. ii.
+p. 212.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This plant was named by the great English botanist in honour of James
+Sutherland, one of the earliest superintendents of the Edinburgh Botanic
+Gardens. The genus has only one species, which is widely distributed
+throughout South Africa, and is probably the most handsome native plant
+in the family _Leguminosae_. According to the _Botanical Magazine_, in
+which the plant was figured (Plate 181), _Sutherlandia frutescens_ was
+known in cultivation as early as 1683, and later became generally known
+in European gardens.
+
+_Sutherlandia frutescens_ forms a small bush, but may grow to 3-4 ft.
+high, and is found usually in fairly dry places. It is known under
+several local names, but probably the most common is “Kanker bos”
+(cancer-bush), as it is reputed to be a cure for cancer.
+
+As the plant is easily raised from seed, and the flowers are
+particularly beautiful, it should be more generally cultivated.
+
+We are indebted to Mr. C. A. Smith, B.Sc., for the specimens which he
+collected at Fauresmith in the Orange Free State.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--A shrub. _Branches_ pubescent, at length becoming
+glabrous. _Leaves_ 6 to 9 cm. long, imparipinnate; leaflets alternate or
+opposite, 1 to 2 cm. long, 3 to 6 mm. broad, lanceolate or oblong,
+obtuse, thinly pubescent. _Inflorescence_ an axillary raceme, peduncle
+and pedicels covered with short stiff sparse hairs. _Floral-bracts_ 3
+mm. long, oblong. _Pedicels_ 1·2 cm. long. _Calyx-tube_ 1 cm. long,
+deeply campanulate; lobes 4·5 mm. long, ovate, acuminate. _Vexillum_ 3
+cm. long, 1·2 cm. broad, obovate, acuminate; alae 8 mm. long, 1·5 mm.
+broad, oblong, obliquely clawed; keel 3·5 cm. long, 8 mm. broad, more or
+less oblong, with a linear claw 1·2 cm. long. _Stamens_ diadelphous;
+filaments filiform. _Ovary_ stalked, 1·5 cm. long, linear, with many
+ovules; style 1·5 cm. long, bearded on the inner face. _Pod_ membranous,
+inflated. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2943.)
+
+     PLATE 193.--Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 194.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 194.
+
+ORNITHOGALUM ODORATISSIMUM.
+
+_Cape Province._
+
+
+LILIACEAE. Tribe SCILLEAE.
+
+ORNITHOGALUM, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 815.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Ornithogalum odoratissimum= _C. A. Smith_, sp. nov. _Bulbus_ ovoideo-globosus,
+2 cm. diam., tunicis brunneis membranaceis. _Folia_ 2-6, 6-10
+cm. longa, anguste linearia, basi leviter dilatata, glabra. _Pedunculus_
+ad 14 cm. longus, cylindricus, glaber. _Inflorescentia_ ad 6 cm. longa,
+pauci-vel multiflora. _Bracteae_ 1-1·8 cm. longae, ovato-acuminatae,
+membranaceae. _Pedicelli_ 0·5-1 cm. longi, teretes. _Segmenta perianthii_
+1·5 cm. longa, oblonga, apice inflexa pubescentia obtusa. _Filamenta_
+0·5-1 cm. longa, basi 2 mm. lata; antherae oblongae. _Ovarium_ 5 mm.
+longum, sessile. _Stylus_ 1·5 cm. longus, teres, apice minute capitatus,
+penicillatus. _Fructus_ trigonus.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This Plate should be compared with that of _O. Roodeae_ figured on Plate
+75, as the two species are no doubt closely related though differing
+much in the colour of the flowers and the shape of the leaves. Like _O.
+Roodeae_ the flowers are very sweet-scented, a character not usually met
+with in the genus, and a single inflorescence is sufficient to saturate
+a large room with a pleasant scent, and even when planted out in the
+garden the strong perfume is noticeable for a considerable distance from
+the plant. The plant has been compared with Jacquin’s figure of _O.
+suaveolens_, from which it differs in being much smaller, and as it has
+been figured it was thought better to describe it than to definitely
+state that it is _O. suaveolens_.
+
+We are indebted to Mrs. E. Rood of van Rhynsdorp for the specimens.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--A simple erect herb. _Bulb_ 2 cm. in diameter, 2·5 cm.
+high, ovoid, with brown tunics. _Leaves_ 2 to 6, 6 to 10 cm. long, 2 to
+3 cm. broad at the base, linear to linear-lanceolate, deeply channelled,
+glabrous. _Peduncle_ up to 14 cm. long, terete, glabrous. _Raceme_ few
+to many-flowered, up to 6 cm. long. _Bracts_ 1 to 1·8 cm. long,
+ovate-acuminate, membranous, dry, partly sheathing the pedicels.
+_Pedicels_ 0·5 to 1 cm. long, cylindric, erect-spreading.
+_Perianth-segments_ 1·5 cm. long, oblong, inflexed obtuse and pubescent
+at the apex, white with a broad green 3-nerved band. _Stamens_ slightly
+shorter than the perianth-segments; filaments 2 mm. broad at the base;
+anthers 2 mm. long, oblong, versatile. _Ovary_ 5 mm. long, sessile;
+style subequalling the perianth-segments, sub-capitate and penicillate
+at the apex. _Fruit_ (immature) deeply and bluntly 3-lobed. (National
+Herb., Pretoria, No. 2941.)
+
+     PLATE 194.--Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2,
+     cross-section of ovary.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 195.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 195.
+
+ATHRIXIA ELATA.
+
+_Basutoland, Cape Province, Natal, O.F.S., Transvaal._
+
+
+COMPOSITAE. Tribe INULOIDEAE.
+
+ATHRIXIA, _Ker._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant_, vol. ii. p. 328.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Athrixia elata=, _Sond. in Linn._ vol. xxiii. p. 67; _Fl. Cap._ vol. iii. p. 292.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The plant figured on the accompanying Plate is a much-branched shrub
+almost 1 m. high, and may be found in flower on the hills surrounding
+Pretoria during the month of August. It grows in masses in certain
+localities and flowers very profusely; if brought under cultivation it
+could no doubt be much improved so as to make it a desirable garden
+plant.
+
+_Athrixia elata_ is found on the Drakensberg in Natal, in Basutoland,
+the eastern Free State and on the spurs of the Drakensberg in the
+northern Transvaal, but extends westwards in the Transvaal as far as
+Rustenburg. The travellers Burke and Zeyher collected specimens almost
+100 years ago on the Magaliesberg, and Cooper also came across the plant
+in his journey through Basutoland in 1861.
+
+We are indebted to Mr. C. A. Smith, B.Sc., for the specimens from which
+our Plate was prepared.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--A much-branched shrub. _Leaves_ alternate, sessile, 0·5 to
+2·5 cm. long, linear, acute, pungent, with revolute margins, glabrous
+above, woolly beneath. _Heads_ subsessile, solitary, terminal, 2·5 to 3
+cm. in diameter (including the rays). _Involucral-bracts_ in many rows,
+unequal; the outer gradually shorter, recurved, aristate, 3 to 4 mm.
+long, 1 mm. broad, narrowly ovate with the apices edged with brown to
+black, woolly; inner 5 to 6 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, linear-oblong;
+innermost 7 to 8·5 mm. long, 0·5 to 1 mm. broad, narrow-linear to
+oblong-elliptic, with membranous margins. _Receptacle_ flat, nude,
+honeycombed with the margins of the cells evident. _Ray-florets_ female;
+tube 4 to 5 mm. long, cylindric, widening above, glabrous; lamina
+oblong-elliptic. _Ovary_ terete, pilose; style cylindric, glabrous,
+deeply 2-cleft. _Disc-florets_ hermaphrodite, fertile. _Corolla_ 6 mm.
+long, tubular, cylindric below, then articulated and the uppermost
+one-third slightly wider, glabrous. _Anthers_ tailed at the base, with
+an ovate obtuse apical appendage. _Ovary_ pilose; style cylindric,
+glabrous, deeply 2-cleft; branches 1 mm. long, linear, truncate,
+penicillate. _Pappus-bristles_ equalling the corolla-tube, rigid,
+persistent, subplumose in the uppermost one-third, alternating with
+minute serrulate scales. (National Herb., Pretoria, 2942.)
+
+     PLATE 195.--Fig. 1, diagrammatic longitudinal section of head; Fig.
+     2, ray-floret; Fig. 3, disc-floret; Fig. 4, involucral-bract; Fig.
+     5, pappus enlarged; Fig. 6, pappus-bristle; Fig. 7, fimbriated
+     pappus-scale.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 196.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 196.
+
+SUTERA BURKEANA.
+
+_Transvaal, Zululand._
+
+
+SCROPHULARIACEAE. Tribe _Manuleae_.
+
+SUTERA, _Roth._ (including _Lyperia_, Benth.); _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._
+vol. ii. p. 945.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Sutera Burkeana=, _Hiern. Fl. Cap._ vol. iv. sect. ii. p. 299.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The _Sutera Burkeana_ here figured for the first time is a common plant
+in some localities around Pretoria and is to be found in flower from the
+beginning of August onwards. It is a bush up to 2-1/2 ft. high and
+appears to be very localised in its distribution, as only isolated
+patches are met with on the hills surrounding Pretoria. It has also been
+recorded from the neighbourhood of Johannesburg and from Zululand.
+
+The plant flowers profusely, and when in full bloom makes a fine display
+and would no doubt be improved under proper cultivation.
+
+Our Plate was prepared from specimens collected by Mr. C. A. Smith near
+Pretoria.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--A much-branched shrub ·3 to 1·3 m. high. _Branches_
+glandular-puberulous. _Leaves_ fascicled recurved 3 to 8 mm. long,
+linear to oblong, cuneate at the base, acute, toothed, punctate.
+_Flowers_ arranged racemosely at the ends of the branches. _Pedicels_ 7
+mm. long, terete, rigid, viscid-puberulous. _Calyx_ 3 to 4 mm. long,
+deeply 5-lobed; lobes lanceolate-linear or oblong-lanceolate, acute,
+glandular-hairy. _Corolla-tube_ cylindric, somewhat swollen and twice
+curved above, glandular-hairy without, softly hairy in the throat; lobes
+broadly obovate, obtuse, entire, often curled or recurved,
+glandular-hairy outside. _Stamens_ 4, hardly exserted; filaments
+filiform, inserted on the corolla-tube. _Anthers_ 1-thecous, all
+perfect. _Ovary_ 2-chambered with numerous ovules; style subulate,
+included; stigma obtuse. _Fruit_ a capsule; valves cleft at the apex.
+_Seeds_ numerous, regose. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2937.)
+
+     PLATE 196.--Fig. 1, longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2, pistil;
+     Fig. 3, cross-section of ovary.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 197.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 197.
+
+EUPHORBIA TRIDENTATA.
+
+_Cape Province._
+
+
+EUPHORBIACEAE. Tribe EUPHORBIEAE.
+
+EUPHORBIA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 258.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Euphorbia tridentata=, _Lam. Encycl._ ii. 416; _Fl.
+Cap._ vol. v. sect. ii. p. 298.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The species of _Euphorbia_ figured on the accompanying Plate is a
+somewhat rare plant and until quite recently it was not known where the
+plant was found, although it was known in European gardens and figured
+almost 100 years ago. The plant belongs to a small group of three
+species in the genus characterised by having the branches constricted at
+their origin of growth. All of them are very dwarf plants.
+
+We are indebted to Mr. H. M. Bartlett of Riversdale for the specimens
+which he sent in July 1924, and these were successfully grown at the
+Division of Botany, Pretoria, and flowered in September 1925.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--Plant dwarf, succulent, spineless, branching from the
+base. _Branches_ ascending or somewhat spreading, 2·5 to 15 cm. long, 1
+to 1·4 cm. thick, cylindric or slightly tapering upwards, tessellately
+tuberculate with hexagonal flattish tubercles 6 to 10 mm. in diam.,
+having a slightly prominent whitish leaf-scar, glabrous, dull green.
+_Leaves_ sessile, soon deciduous, 4 to 6 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. broad,
+elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute, dark green, with a reddish minutely
+toothed margin. _Peduncles_ 3 to 4 at the ends of the branches, about 4
+mm. long, bearing a pair of ovate or elliptic bracts and 1 involucre,
+glabrous. _Involucre_ about 1·3 to 1·8 cm. in diam., cup-shaped,
+glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 transversely oblong, toothed and ciliate,
+inflexed, purplish lobes. _Glands_ subcontiguous, about 5 mm. in diam.
+across the tips, very concave at the basal part, divided into 3 to 4
+spreading finger-like corrugated white processes 2 to 3 mm. long.
+_Ovary_ pedicellate, scarcely exserted, with styles 7 mm. long, united
+for two-thirds of their length, with entire spreading tips. (National
+Herb., Pretoria, No. 2989.)
+
+     PLATE 197.--Fig. 1, inflorescence; Fig. 2, gland with lobes.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 198.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 198.
+
+VENIDIUM WYLEYI.
+
+_Little Namaqualand._
+
+
+COMPOSITAE. Tribe ARCTOTIDEAE.
+
+VENIDIUM, _Less._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant_, vol. ii. p. 459.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Venidium Wyley=i, _Harv. Fl. Cap._ vol. iii. p. 463.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This Plate, and that on Plate 117, should be compared with _Arctotis
+Fosteri_ which we figured on Plate 3, when the difference between the
+genera _Venidium_ and _Arctotis_ will be seen. In the former genus the
+fruits are without a pappus or with a very rudimentary one, while in the
+latter genus a well-developed pappus is always present.
+
+The plant is commonly known as the “Namaqua Daisy,” and in its native
+home the flower-heads attain a very large size when the season is
+favourable, but may be quite small when no rain has fallen. _Venidium
+Wyleyi_ does quite well under cultivation, and is easily grown and forms
+a very effective border.
+
+We are indebted to Mr. L. R. Vogt of Waterkloof near Pretoria for the
+specimens, which were grown in his garden.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--An erect herb. _Stems_ terete, hollow, striate,
+pilose-hoary, laxly leafy. _Cauline leaves_ 1·2 to 15 cm. long, sessile;
+the lower lyrato-pinnatifid, amply auricled, amplexicaul, on both sides
+cobwebby-tomentose; the upper broadly ovate, closely crowded in the
+young stems, cobwebby-tomentose, obtuse, with the margins entire or
+remotely 1 to 2 toothed. _Heads_ peduncled, terminal, very large and
+showy, 8 cm. in diam. (including the rays), the buds very hoary.
+_Involucral bracts_ imbricate, in several rows; the outer narrower,
+reflexed, herbaceous, green; the innermost row much longer, broadly
+scariose, spreading below the rays; the whole involucre densely
+cobwebby. _Receptacle_ 1·8 cm. in diam., convex, deeply honeycombed,
+with the margins of the cells produced into a few bristles.
+_Ray-florets_ female, 1-seriate, alternate rays spreading, others at
+first ascending, then spreading, giving an appearance of two rows.
+_Corolla_ ligulate; lamina bright orange coloured, oblong-cuneate, very
+faintly 3-toothed at apex, of lower whorl smaller (2·5 cm. long) and
+with a smaller brow-black blotch at the base than that of upper whorl (3
+cm. long); tube 3 mm. long, broader at base than at the top,
+subglabrous. _Ovary_ obovate in outline, muricated, glabrous; style 4
+mm. long, cylindric, glabrous; stigmatic portion wider, with the
+branches 0·5 mm. long, linear, flat, spreading. _Disc-florets_
+hermaphrodite, fertile, numerous, crowded on the head. _Corolla_ 4 mm.
+long, subcylindric, 5-cleft at the apex for about a quarter the length
+of the tube, with 5 longitudinal rows of glandular hairs; lobes
+blackish, 1 mm. long, linear, subacute, with the angles between the
+lobes obtuse. _Anthers_ purplish, black, 2 mm. long, obtuse, with a
+small suborbicular apical appendage; filaments 1·5 mm. long, linear,
+flat, at length filiform, inserted on lower half of corolla tube.
+_Ovary_ obovate in outline, white, muricated, glabrous; style 5·5 mm.
+long, at first narrowly cylindric, then in upper half abruptly widening
+into a yellow stigmatic portion, 2 mm. long, slightly cleft at the apex,
+becoming much exserted. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2944.)
+
+     PLATE 198.--Fig. 1, longitudinal section of receptacle; Fig. 2,
+     ray-floret; Fig. 3, disc-floret; Fig. 4, inner involucral-bract;
+     Fig. 5, outer involucral-bract; Fig. 6, achene.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1923.
+[Illustration: 199.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 199.
+
+ERICA BLENNA var. GRANDIFLORA.
+
+_Cape Province._
+
+
+ERICACEAE. Tribe ERICEAE.
+
+ERICA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. ii. p. 590.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Erica blenna=, _Salisb._ var. =grandiflora=, _Bolus. Fl. Cap._ vol. iv. sect. i.
+p. 202.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Through the courtesy of Dr. J. Muir of Riversdale we are able to figure
+for the first time a species of heath, and perhaps one of the most
+beautiful of all the Cape heaths. The variety _grandiflora_ is only
+found as far as we know in the Riversdale and Bredasdorp Districts and
+is by no means a common plant. It is known locally as the “lantern” or
+“Riversdale” heath. The species itself, like so many of the South
+African species of _Erica_, was first collected by Masson about the year
+1772, and was successfully cultivated in Europe and figured on more than
+one occasion in early botanical literature.
+
+DESCRIPTION:--Erect, 0·3 to 0·5 m. high. _Branches_ stout, ascending,
+virgate or flexuous, puberulous or glabrous. _Leaves_ 3-nate, mostly
+erect and imbricate or subspreading, linear, subobtuse, flat above,
+keeled and sulcate beneath, glabrous, 8 to 10 mm. long. _Flowers_
+usually solitary, rarely in pairs (“here and there sublateral,”
+Bentham). _Pedicels_ about 8 mm. long; bracts remote, lanceolate, about
+6 mm. long; sepals ovate, acuminate, keel-tipped, thickish, subscarious,
+viscid, coloured or greenish, about 5 mm. long. _Corolla_ conical-ovoid
+or suburceolate-conical, much contracted to the mouth but only slightly
+constricted at the throat, very viscid, 1·6 to 2 cm. long, bright
+orange-red, the limb and some distance below it green; segments
+spreading or erect, about one-eighth the length of the tube; filaments
+broad at the base tapering upwards, bent below the anther; anthers
+included, dorsifixed well above the base, cuneate, subacute,
+scaberulous, ciliolate, about 3 mm. long, crested; pore three-fifths to
+two-thirds the length of the cell; crests quite free from the filament,
+subsemiorbicular in outline, deeply inciso-lacerate, about half the
+length of the cell; style included, straight; stigma capitellate; ovary
+glabrous. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2991.)
+
+     PLATE 199.--Fig. 1, pedicel showing bracts; Fig. 2, androecium and
+     gynaecium; Fig. 3, single stamen; Fig. 4, pistil; Fig. 5, anther
+     enlarged.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+[Illustration: 200.]
+
+
+
+
+PLATE 200.
+
+DIMORPHOTHECA CUNEATA.
+
+_Cape Province, Natal, Orange Free State._
+
+
+COMPOSITAE. Tribe CALENDULEAE.
+
+DIMORPHOTHECA, _Moench._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. ii. p. 453.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Dimorphotheca cuneata=, _Less. Syn._ 257; _Fl. Cap._ vol. iii. p. 422.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We are indebted for the specimens, from which the accompanying Plate was
+prepared, to Mr. C. A. Smith, B.Sc., who collected them in September
+1925 on the botanical reserve near Fauresmith, Orange Free State.
+According to Mr. Smith the plants cover the hill-sides and from a
+distance appear as large white patches. It flowers very profusely, so
+much so that the leaves are almost hidden by the mass of flowers. The
+laminae of the ray-florets are white above and copper-coloured beneath,
+not yellow as described in the _Flora Capensis_.
+
+The specimens collected by Mr. Smith are an exact match with those
+collected by Zeyher (No. 2812). Zeyher No. 3066, quoted by Harvey as _D.
+cuneata_, is quite a different plant, perhaps a _Tripteris_. We have
+accepted the specific name “cuneata,” as this was the name given by Mr.
+N. E. Brown to a specimen collected by Mr. E. E. Galpin. Locally known
+as “mak-bietou.”
+
+DESCRIPTION:--A densely and closely branched bushy shrub up to 1·05 m.
+high, the older branches naked, rough, the younger short and closely
+leafy. _Leaves_ varying in shape (linear to obovate) and size (0·5 to
+1·3 cm. long), always cuneate at the base, sharply 2 to 4 toothed,
+obscurely mid-ribbed, gland-dotted, subdecurrent, glabrous or nearly so.
+_Peduncles_ terminal, 2 to 3·5 cm. long, glandular-pubescent,
+viscidulous, becoming widened at the top. _Involucre_ uni-seriate,
+glaucescent, viscidulous; scales linear-acuminate, minutely
+glandular-puberulous, with pale-edged and ciliate margins. _Receptacle_
+about 3·5 mm. in diam., nude, flat. Ray-florets female, uniseriate.
+_Corolla_ ligulate, white above, yellow to bronze-coppery below; lamina
+spreading, finely-three toothed, cuneate at the base; tube of corolla
+1·5 mm. long, terete, glandular-hairy. _Ovary_ triquetrous, green,
+obconic, somewhat curved, glandular hairy with stalked glands, with the
+angular margins bluntly toothed; style 4·5 mm. long, cylindric,
+glabrous; branches 2 mm. long, yellow, flat, subacute. _Disc-florets_
+hermaphrodite, fertile. _Corolla-tube_ yellow, 3 mm. long, subcylindric,
+with a 5-fid limb, very densely glandular-hairy at the base, glabrous
+above. _Anthers_ 3 mm. long, subsagittate at the base, with an ovate
+obtuse apical appendage. _Ovary_ very much laterally compressed,
+obcordate, glandular, with a wide thick-rimmed entire marginal wing;
+style 6 mm. long, cylindric, glabrous; branches appearing truncate with
+a ring of bristles, capped by a short conical apex. (National Herb.,
+Pretoria, No. 2990.)
+
+     PLATE 200.--Fig. 1, ray-floret; Fig. 2, ray-achene; Fig. 3,
+     disc-floret; Fig. 4, disc-achene; Fig. 5, stamen.
+
+     F.P.S.A., 1925.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX TO VOLUME V.
+
+
+      PLATE
+
+ALOE ARBORESCENS _var._ FRUTESCENS, 187
+
+ALOE CHABAUDII, 164
+
+ALOE FEROX, 169
+
+ALOE MARLOTHII, 171
+
+ALOE RUPESTRIS, 178
+
+ALOE SESSILIFLORA, 180
+
+ATHRIXIA ELATA, 195
+
+CEROPEGIA HAYGARTHII, 191
+
+COTYLEDON ORBICULATA, 161
+
+CRASSULA COLUMNARIS, 173
+
+CRASSULA LATICEPHALA, 189
+
+CRASSULA ROSULARIS, 167
+
+DERMATOBOTRYS SAUNDERSII, 188
+
+DIMORPHOTHECA CUNEATA, 200
+
+ERICA BLENNA _var._ GRANDIFLORA, 199
+
+EUPHORBIA TRIDENTATA, 197
+
+GAZANIA SUFFRUTICOSA, 183
+
+GLADIOLUS CRUENTUS, 182
+
+GLADIOLUS ORCHIDIFLORUS, 165
+
+GLADIOLUS TRICHOSTACHYS, 163
+
+GLADIOLUS TRISTIS, 175
+
+HAEMANTHUS ALBIFLOS, 190
+
+HYPOXIS ROOPERI, 172
+
+LACHENALIA RUBIDA _var._ TIGRINA, 184
+
+LACHENALIA TRICOLOR, 166
+
+LEUCADENDRON HUMIFUSUM, 170
+
+LISSOCHILUS SPECIOSUS, 168
+
+ORNITHOGALUM ODORATISSIMUM, 194
+
+PROTEA HARMERI, 192
+
+PROTEA MUNDII, 185
+
+PROTEA PITYPHYLLA, 177
+
+SARCOPHYTE SANGUINEA, 176
+
+SENECIO FULGENS, 179
+
+SENECIO TAMOIDES, 174
+
+STAPELIA GIGANTEA _var._ PALLIDA, 181
+
+STRELITZIA REGINAE, 186
+
+SUTERA BURKEANA, 196
+
+SUTHERLANDIA FRUTESCENS, 193
+
+SYNNOTIA BICOLOR, 162
+
+VENIDIUM WYLEYI, 198
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 76601 ***
diff --git a/76601-h/76601-h.htm b/76601-h/76601-h.htm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c939e9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/76601-h.htm
@@ -0,0 +1,2841 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+  <head>
+<link rel="icon" href="images/cover.jpg" type="image/x-cover">
+
+<meta charset="utf-8">
+<title>
+ The Project Gutenberg eBook of The flowering
+plants of South Africa; vol. 5 of 5, edited by I.B. Pole Evans.</title>
+<style>
+
+a:link {background-color:#ffffff;color:blue;text-decoration:none;}
+
+  link {background-color:#ffffff;color:blue;text-decoration:none;}
+
+a:visited {background-color:#ffffff;color:purple;text-decoration:none;}
+
+a:hover {background-color:#ffffff;color:#FF0000;text-decoration:underline;}
+
+body{margin-left:4%;margin-right:6%;background:#ffffff;color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-size:medium;}
+
+.blockquot {
+    margin: 2% 20%
+    }
+
+.c {text-align:center;text-indent:0%;}
+
+.eng  {font-family: Olde English, Old English Text MT, sans-serif;}
+
+.figcenter   {margin:3% auto 3% auto;clear:both;
+text-align:center;text-indent:0%;}
+
+.hang {text-indent:-2%;margin-left:2%;}
+
+ h1 {margin-top:5%;text-align:center;clear:both;
+font-weight:normal;}
+
+ h2 {margin-top:4%;margin-bottom:2%;text-align:center;clear:both;
+ font-size:100%;font-weight:normal;}
+
+hr {
+    width: 15%;
+    margin: 0.5em auto 0.5em auto;
+    clear: both;
+    color: black
+    }
+
+ hr.full {width: 60%;margin:2% auto 2% auto;border-top:1px solid black;
+padding:.1em;border-bottom:1px solid black;border-left:none;border-right:none;}
+
+ img {border:none;}
+
+ p {margin-top:.2em;text-align:justify;margin-bottom:.2em;text-indent:4%;}
+
+.pagenum {
+    display: none
+    }
+
+.rt {text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom;}
+
+small {font-size: 70%;}
+
+.smcap  {font-variant:small-caps;font-size:100%;}
+
+table {margin-top:2%;margin-bottom:2%;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;border:none;}
+
+div.poetry {text-align:center;}
+div.poem {font-size:90%;margin:auto auto;text-indent:0%;
+display: inline-block; text-align: left;}
+.poem .stanza     {margin-top: 1em;margin-bottom:1em;}
+.poem span.i0     {display: block; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
+.poem span.i7 {
+    display: block;
+    margin-left: 3em;
+    padding-left: 3em;
+    text-indent: -3em
+    }
+
+</style>
+  </head>
+<body>
+<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 76601 ***</div>
+<hr class="full">
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<a href="images/cover.jpg" id="id-8966661515504870096">
+<img alt="" height="550" src="images/cover.jpg" id="img_images_cover.jpg"></a>
+</div>
+
+<table>
+<tbody><tr><td class="c"><a href="#INDEX_TO_VOLUME_V"><b>INDEX
+TO VOLUME V.</b></a></td></tr>
+</tbody></table>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p>
+
+<h1>THE FLOWERING PLANTS OF<br>
+SOUTH AFRICA.</h1>
+<p class="c">A MAGAZINE CONTAINING HAND-COLOURED FIGURES WITH DESCRIPTIONS<br>
+OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO SOUTH AFRICA.<br>
+<br>
+EDITED BY<br>
+I. B. POLE EVANS, C.M.G., M.A., <span class="smcap">D.Sc.</span>, F.L.S.,<br>
+<span class="eng">Chief, Division of Botany and Plant Pathology, Department of Agriculture, Pretoria;<br>
+and Director of the Botanical Survey of the Union of South Africa.</span><br>
+VOL. V.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><img alt=""
+src="images/title.jpg" width="450" id="img_images_title.jpg"></div>
+
+<div class="poetry">
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The veld which lies so desolate and bare<br></span>
+<span class="i0">Will blossom into cities white and fair,<br></span>
+<span class="i0">And pinnacles will pierce the desert air,<br></span>
+<span class="i0">And sparkle in the sun.<br></span>
+<span class="i7"><span class="smcap">R. C. Macfie’s “Ex Unitate Vires.”</span><br></span>
+</div></div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="c">LONDON:
+L. REEVE &amp; CO., <span class="smcap">Ltd.</span>,
+HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON<br>
+SOUTH AFRICA:<br>
+THE SPECIALTY PRESS OF SOUTH AFRICA, <span class="smcap">Ltd.</span>,
+P.O. BOX 3958, JOHANNESBURG; P.O. BOX 388, CAPETOWN.
+1925.<br>
+[<i>All rights reserved.</i>]
+</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span>&#160; </p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span>&#160; </p>
+
+<p class="c">
+THIS VOLUME<br>
+IS CORDIALLY DEDICATED<br>
+TO<br>
+THOMAS PEARSON STOKOE<br>
+OF CAPE TOWN<br>
+</p>
+
+<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
+WHOSE INDEFATIGABLE EXERTIONS IN EXPLORING<br>
+THE FLORA OF THE CAPE MOUNTAINS HAVE<br>
+RENDERED VALUABLE SERVICE TO SOUTH AFRICAN<br>
+BOTANY BY THE DISCOVERY OF NEW PLANTS AND<br>
+THE RE-DISCOVERY OF MANY THAT WERE LONG<br>
+LOST, AND TO WHOSE ZEAL, ENTHUSIASM, AND<br>
+GENEROSITY AS A COLLECTOR THIS WORK IS<br>
+GREATLY INDEBTED.<br>
+</div></div>
+<p class="hang">
+<span class="smcap">Division of Botany, Pretoria.</span><br>
+<i>October, 1925.</i><br>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span>&#160; </p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span>&#160; </p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span>&#160; </p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span>&#160; </p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_001.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_001.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_161"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 161.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+COTYLEDON <span class="smcap">ORBICULATA</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province, Transvaal.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Crassulaceae.</span><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Cotyledon</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. i. p. 659.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Cotyledon orbiculata</b>, <i>Linn. Sp. Pl.</i> 614; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. ii. p. 371.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p><i>Cotyledon orbiculata</i> was first figured in the <i>Botanical Magazine</i> in
+1795, and stated to have been introduced into English gardens about the
+year 1690. The genus <i>Cotyledon</i> differs from <i>Crassula</i> (see Plate 115)
+by having twice as many stamens as petals. It is a large genus in South
+Africa, and represented by between 30 to 40 species. Several species of
+the genus are of economic interest inasmuch as they produce disease in
+stock. The well-known “Krimptziekte” of goats is caused by <i>C.
+Wallichii</i>. The Division of Veterinary Education and Research carried
+out some feeding experiments with <i>C. orbiculata</i> in 1921 at
+Grahamstown, and definitely proved that feeding the leaves to fowls
+caused death.</p>
+
+<p>Our plate was prepared from specimens grown at the Division of Botany,
+Pretoria. The plant goes under the common names of “hondenoor,”
+“Konterie,” “Varkens ooren,” and “pig’s-ear.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;Low shrubby somewhat succulent plant. <i>Stem</i> with
+light-brown bark. <i>Leaves</i> opposite, 6·5 to 8 cm. long, 4 to 4·5 cm.
+broad, obovate, subacute, glabrous, glaucous, with red margins.
+<i>Peduncle</i> up to 27 cm. long, 8 mm. in diameter, terete, reddish in
+colour with a whitish bloom. <i>Inflorescence</i> a panicle of cymes.
+<i>Calyx-tube</i> almost none; lobes 5 mm. long, ovate, acute. <i>Corolla-tube</i>
+2·8 cm. long, 1·5 cm. in diameter; lobes 2 cm. long, 7 mm. broad,
+oblong, obtuse, slightly twisted counter-clockwise. <i>Stamens</i> 10, five
+shorter inserted near the base of the corolla-tube, with a ring of hairs
+at the point of attachment and produced below the hairs into a strong
+rib; filaments subterete; anthers<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> ovate. <i>Carpels</i> as long as the
+shorter stamens. <i>Glands</i> forming a deep concave body at the base of
+each carpel.</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 161.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, longitudinal median section of the flower; Fig.
+2, gynæcium, showing glands; Fig. 3, stamen; Fig. 4, tuft of hairs
+on filament; Fig. 5, side view of gland at base of carpel.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_002.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_002.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_162"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 162.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+<span class="smcap">SYNNOTIA bicolor.</span><br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Iridaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Ixieae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Synnotia</span>, <i>Sweet</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 709.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Synnotia bicolor</b>, <i>Sweet</i>, <i>Hort. Brit.</i> ed. 2, p. 501; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. vi. p. 134.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>This species was introduced into the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew by
+George Masson in 1786, and was described as a <i>Gladiolus</i>, and later in
+the <i>Botanical Magazine</i> (t. 548) as a species of <i>Ixia</i>. From the
+former genus it is readily distinguished by the membranous lacerated
+spathe-valves and from the latter by the unilateral stamens.</p>
+
+<p>The plant is rather stiff, but the individual flowers are quite
+charming. As will be seen from the illustration, the flowers resemble in
+general shape those of <i>Gladiolus orchidi-florus</i> shown at Plate 165 of
+this work.</p>
+
+<p>Our specimen was prepared from plants grown by Dr. I. B. Pole Evans,
+C.M.G., from corms forwarded by Mrs. E. Rood of van Rhynsdorp.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;<i>Corm</i> ellipsoid, 3 cm. long, 1·5 cm. in diameter, covered
+with fine reticulated sheaths. <i>Leaves</i> 7 in a basal distichous rosette,
+8 to 11 cm. long, 0·7 to 1·4 cm. broad, linear-oblong, very acute, with
+1 more or less evident mid-rib, but many-veined when viewed in
+transmitted light. <i>Peduncle</i> about 12 cm. long, flexuose, bearing about
+6 distant flowers. <i>Outer spathe-valves</i> 1 cm. long, deeply 3-partite,
+inner 2-partite. <i>Perianth</i> distinctly 2-lipped; tube 1·5 cm. long,
+widening upwards; posterior segment 2·5 cm. long, erect, clawed, with an
+ovate obtuse limb; side-segments 1·7 cm. long, 6 mm. broad, more or less
+oblong, obtuse, spreading-reflexed; 3 anterior segments more or less
+horizontal and forming a distinct lip. <i>Style</i> as long as the<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> stamens,
+divided into 3 lobes dilated at the apex. (National Herb. Pretoria, No.
+2860.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 162.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2,
+spathe-valve; Fig. 3, stamen; Fig. 4, style showing stigmas; Fig.
+5, fruit.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_003.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_003.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_163"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 163.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+<span class="smcap">GLADIOLUS trichostachys.</span><br>
+<br>
+<i>Transvaal.</i><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Iridaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Ixieae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Gladiolus</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 709.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Gladiolus trichostachys</b>, <i>Baker in Bull.</i> <i>Herb. Boiss.</i> ser. II. vol. iv.<br>
+p. 1006.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>This charming little <i>Gladiolus</i> was first found by Conrath at Irene,
+near Pretoria, and was again collected by Dr. I. B. Pole Evans, C.M.G.,
+in the same locality. It was described by Baker, with several other
+Transvaal species, in 1904, but is here figured for the first time.</p>
+
+<p>The plant produces a single erect flowering stem with clasping leaves
+scarcely produced above. The species belongs to the Section <i>Hebea</i>,
+which we have illustrated on Plates 63 and 165 (<i>G. alatus</i>, <i>G.
+orchidiflorus</i>), and is closely related to <i>G. permeabilis</i>, a species
+common in the Cape Province, but which also extends into Bechuanaland.
+It is, however, easily distinguished from this species by the
+non-produced leaves and hairy stems.</p>
+
+<p>Our illustration was made from the specimens collected by Dr. I. B. Pole
+Evans, C.M.G., at Irene.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;<i>Bulb</i> 2 cm. in diameter, globose, covered with brown
+fibres. <i>Stem</i> pilose on the lower half. <i>Leaves</i> clasping the stem,
+sheath pilose, hardly produced. <i>Inflorescence</i> 13 cm. long, 7-to
+10-flowered. <i>Outer spathe-valves</i> 1·5 cm. long, somewhat membranous
+above, entire, bifid or trifid; inner spathe-valves similar to the
+outer, bifid. <i>Stamens</i> shorter than the style; anthers somewhat
+sagittate at the base. <i>Style-branches</i> cuneate, fimbriate on the
+edges.<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 163.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, plant much reduced; Fig. 2, median longitudinal
+section of flower; Fig. 3, outer spathe-valve; Fig. 4, inner
+spathe-valve; Fig. 5, anther; Fig. 6, portion of style with style
+branches.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_004.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_004.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_164"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 164.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+<span class="smcap">ALOE Chabaudii.</span><br>
+<br>
+<i>Rhodesia.</i><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Liliaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Aloineae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Aloe</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 776.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Aloe Chabaudii</b>, <i>Schonl. in Gard. Chron.</i> 1905, p. 162.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>Dr. Schonland in his description of this <i>Aloe</i> in the <i>Gardeners’
+Chronicle</i> states that it is allied to <i>A. striata</i>, and a reference to
+our Plate 55 will show the similarity of the flowers in the two species.
+The specimens from which the original description was prepared were
+collected by Mr. J. M. Brown in Rhodesia, but the exact locality is not
+known. They were grown and flowered by Mr. J. A. Chabaud of Port
+Elizabeth. The plant is erect with a short stem, and has not the
+reclining habit of <i>A. striata</i>. It is very suitable for large
+rockeries, and makes an effective display when in flower.</p>
+
+<p>Our plate was prepared from specimens grown at the Division of Botany,
+Pretoria.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;Acaulescent or almost so. <i>Leaves</i> 18 to 24, forming an
+irregular rosette, up to 45 cm. long and 15 cm. broad near the base,
+about 2 cm. thick, ovate-lanceolate, unspotted, somewhat glaucous; upper
+surface indistinctly striate, nearly flat, except near the apex, where
+it is channelled; lower surface slightly convex; margin with a narrow
+horny border; prickles 1·5 mm. long or even smaller, at first
+flesh-coloured, brown in older leaves, straight or (especially in the
+upper portion of the leaf) curved forward, about 1·5 cm. apart,
+interspaces straight. <i>Inflorescence</i> a loose panicle, with squarrose
+ascending branches 60 to 80 cm. in height, about 45 cm. in diameter;
+racemes lax, floriferous portion 15 to 20 cm. long; bracts deltoid,
+acuminate, membranous, lowest about 6 mm. long, upper gradually smaller;
+pedicels spreading, lowest 2 cm. long, upper only slightly<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> smaller;
+perianth 3·5 cm. long, slightly curved, distinctly obconical at the
+base, swollen round the ovary, with three decided oblong indentations
+above it (in a line with the inner segments); outer segments pale
+brick-red with nearly white wings near the apex, inner with red median
+line and pale wings, which are yellowish at the apex; tube of corolla
+nearly two-thirds its length; filaments yellow, slightly exceeding the
+perianth in length, anthers pale terra-cotta; ovary broadly oblong,
+green; style yellow, not exserted; stigma very small, capitate (S.
+Schonland).</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 164.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2,
+bract; Fig. 3, anther; Fig. 4, apex of style.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_005.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_005.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_165"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 165.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+<span class="smcap">GLADIOLUS orchidiflorus.</span><br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Iridaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Ixieae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Gladiolus</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 709.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Gladiolus orchidiflorus</b> <i>Andr. Bot. Rep.</i> t. 241; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. vi. p. 160.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>In the <i>Botanical Magazine</i> for the year 1803 (Plate 688) appeared an
+excellent figure of this species under the name <i>Gladiolus viperatus</i>,
+which was given owing to a fanciful resemblance to “the head and
+appearance of the jaws of the snake when raising itself for defence
+against its enemy and hissing.” Prior to the figure above quoted Jacquin
+illustrated the same species (1781-1786).</p>
+
+<p>Like most species of <i>Gladiolus</i>, it lends itself to cultivation and is
+easily grown in pots.</p>
+
+<p>A comparison of this plate of <i>G. orchidiflorus</i> and Plate 63 (<i>G.
+alatus</i> var. <i>namaquensis</i>) should be made with other plates of
+<i>Gladiolus</i> figured. The two species belong to the section <i>Hebea</i>, all
+the members of which may be easily recognised by the long claws to the
+perianth-segments.</p>
+
+<p>The plants from which our illustration was made were grown by Dr. I. B.
+Pole Evans, C.M.G., at Irene, near Pretoria, from corms sent by Mrs. E.
+Rood of van Rhynsdorp.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;<i>Corm</i> 2·5 cm. diameter, depressed-globose, covered with
+fibrous tunics. <i>Produced leaves</i> 4; lowest leaf with a
+lanceolate-linear blade, 6·5 cm. long, 8 mm. broad, prominently
+2-ribbed; upper leaves up to 30 cm. long, 5 to 8 mm. broad, linear,
+acuminate, acute, with 2 of the ribs more prominent than the others,
+glabrous. <i>Inflorescence</i> about half as long as the leaves, laxly
+few-flowered. <i>Perianth</i> very unequal; the uppermost segment long-clawed
+and with an oblong obtuse blade membranous on the margins, arched over
+the flower and the style and stamens; side segments<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> broadly ovate,
+clawed, and produced into an acuminate point; lower segments more or
+less forming a lip, spathulate, long-clawed, obtuse. <i>Stamens</i> arched
+under the uppermost segment and completely hidden by it. <i>Style</i> arched
+under the uppermost segment, projecting beyond its apex; lobes
+spathulate, papillose round the edges. (National Herb. Pretoria, No.
+2858.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 165.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, plant much reduced; Fig. 2, median longitudinal
+section of flower; Fig. 3, corm; Fig. 4, spathe-valve; Fig. 5,
+stamen; Fig. 6, top of style showing the 3 stigmas; Fig. 7, fruit.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span>&#160; </p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span>&#160; </p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_006.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_006.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_166"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 166.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+<span class="smcap">LACHENALIA tricolor.</span><br>
+var. <span class="smcap">LUTEOLA</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Liliaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Scilleae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Lachenalia</span>, <i>Jacq.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 807.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Lachenalia tricolor</b>, <i>Thunb.</i> var. <b>luteola</b>, <i>Baker</i>.; <i>Jacq. Collect.</i> vol. iv.<br>
+p. 148; <i>Ic.</i> vol. ii. p. 16, t. 395; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. vi. p. 424.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>The <i>Lachenalia</i> figured on the accompanying plate is among the most
+graceful species in the genus. It is closely allied to <i>L. pendula</i>,
+illustrated on Plate 158, but is distinguished by having the inner
+perianth-segments much longer than the outer. The plant was known to
+horticulturists in Europe almost 150 years ago, and was figured in
+colour between 1786 and 1793 by Jacquin, and again in the <i>Botanical
+Magazine</i> in 1807.</p>
+
+<p><i>L. tricolor</i> grows in the sandy parts of the Cape Province, but lends
+itself to cultivation in pots. It has been successfully grown at Irene,
+near Pretoria, by Dr. I. B. Pole Evans, C.M.G., from bulbs supplied by
+Lady Smartt of “Glen Ban,” Stellenbosch, C.P., and from these specimens
+our illustration was made.</p>
+
+<p>In the young flowering stage the buds are quite green, but become yellow
+in the lower half as they grow older, while in the adult flower the
+colour is a deep chrome (R. C. S.).</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;<i>Bulb</i> globose, 1·3 cm. in diameter, with long white roots
+from the base. <i>Leaves</i> 2, up to 17 cm. long, 2·5 cm. broad at the base,
+2 cm. broad above, strap-shaped, obtuse, glabrous. <i>Peduncle</i> up to 16
+cm. long, terete, green, spotted with brown. <i>Flowers</i> racemose,
+pendulous, each flower arising from a small pocket formed by the bract.
+<i>Bract</i> 3 mm. long, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, with a conical blunt spur.
+<i>Outer perianth-segments</i> 1·6 cm. long, oblong,<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> obtuse, one slightly
+beaked below the apex; inner segments 2·6 cm. long, widened upwards,
+obtuse. Stamens hardly exerted. <i>Style</i> as long as the stamens,
+penicillate at the apex. (National Herb. Pretoria, No. 2857.)</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Plate 166.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, whole plant much reduced; Fig. 2, median
+longitudinal section of the flower; Fig. 3, bulb; Fig. 4, part of
+peduncle showing pocket-like bracts; Fig. 5, stamen; Fig. 6, upper
+portion of style showing stigma.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_007.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_007.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_167"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 167.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+<span class="smcap">CRASSULA rosularis.</span><br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province</i>, <i>Natal</i>.<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Crassulaceae.</span><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Crassula</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. i. p. 657.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Crassula rosularis</b>, <i>Harv.</i>; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. ii. p. 350.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p><i>Crassula rosularis</i> belongs to the section <i>Rosulares</i>, which is
+characterised by having rosulate flat radical leaves and a scape-like
+flowering stem. Unlike so many species of <i>Crassula</i>, it is a
+shade-loving plant.</p>
+
+<p>The plant from which our illustration was made was found growing under
+Aloes near Greytown in Natal, whence it extends southwards to Uitenhage.
+It is a dainty little plant, and would thrive on a shaded rockery if
+supplied with humus and a fair amount of moisture. In its choice of
+habitat it resembles very much <i>C. flabellifolia</i>, <i>C. Saxifraga</i> and
+<i>C. Septas</i>.</p>
+
+<p>We are indebted to Lady Leuchars for the specimens.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;An acaulescent plant. <i>Leaves</i> rosulate, radical; lower
+leaves spathulate-oblong, about 5 cm. long; the upper leaves becoming
+gradually smaller and broadly ovate; all with cartilaginous-ciliated
+margins. <i>Peduncle</i> scape-like, glabrous. <i>Flowers</i> in peduncled cymes,
+arranged in a panicle on a common peduncle. <i>Pedicels</i> about 2 mm. long.
+<i>Calyx</i> half as long as the corolla; lobes lanceolate-oblong, ciliate.
+<i>Petals</i> obovate-oblong, with a dorsal apiculus just below the apex.
+<i>Stamens</i> 5, almost as long as the petals and alternating with them.
+<i>Glands</i> of 5 scales opposite the carpels. <i>Carpels</i> 5; styles short;
+stigmas capitate. (National Herb. Pretoria, No. 2859.)<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 167.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2,
+carpels; Fig. 3, stamens.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_008.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_008.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap"><a id="Plate_168"></a>Plate 168.</span></p>
+
+<p class="c">
+<span class="smcap">LISSOCHILUS speciosus.</span><br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province, Natal, Transvaal.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Orchidaceae.</span> Tribe Vandeae.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Lissochilus</span>, <i>R. Br.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 536.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Lissochilus speciosus</b>, <i>R. Br.</i> ex <i>Lindl. Coll. Bot.</i> t. 31; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. v.<br>
+sect. iii. p. 59.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p><i>Lissochilus speciosus</i> is one of the more common species of the genus
+and has a wide range of distribution. It is found in the Uitenhage
+Division, and then follows the coastal belt northwards, through the
+Transkei into Natal, and up to the northern spurs of the Drakensbergen
+in the Transvaal. The species has also been recorded from Mazoe in
+Rhodesia. Robert Brown’s genus <i>Lissochilus</i>, which he founded in 1821,
+was based on this species. But the late Dr. H. Bolus placed it in the
+genus <i>Eulophia</i>, and redescribed the plant as <i>Eulophia speciosa</i> in
+1890, and figured it under the same name in 1911 (<i>Orchids of South
+Africa</i>, vol. ii. t. 13).</p>
+
+<p>The specimen from which our plate was made was found by Misses H. Forbes
+and S. Gower at Isipingo, Natal, and grown at the Division of Botany,
+Pretoria. It is common all along the slopes of the sandhills of the
+Southern Natal coast.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;Pseudobulbs ovoid, 5 cm. or more long, with a few ovate
+sheaths, 3-to 5-leaved; leaves elongate, linear, acute, somewhat fleshy,
+without prominent veins, conduplicate below, not articulated above the
+base, 15 to 30 cm. or more long, 2 to 2·5 cm. or more broad; scapes
+erect, stout, up to nearly 1 m. long, with several spathaceous sheaths;
+racemes long, somewhat lax, many flowered, flowers medium-sized, bracts
+ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2 to 2·5 cm. long; pedicels
+2 to 2·5 cm. long; sepals ovate to ovate-oblong, subacute or acute,
+reflexed, green, about 1 cm. long; petals spreading, broadly ovate or
+ovate-<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span>suborbicular, subobtuse, about 2 cm. long, bright yellow; lip
+3-lobed, nearly as long as the petals; side-lobes suberect, short and
+transversely oblong, white with a few reddish lines; front lobe broadly
+elliptic, obtuse, reflexed at the sides, yellow with a few reddish lines
+at the base; disc convex, with 3 obtuse keels; spur very short, broadly
+conical, obtuse, column oblong, 6 mm. long (<i>Flora Capensis</i>).</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 168.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, plant much reduced: Fig. 2, median longitudinal
+section of flower; Fig. 3, bract; Fig. 4, anthers; Fig. 5, back
+view of anthers.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_009.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_009.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_169"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 169.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+<span class="smcap">ALOE ferox.</span><br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province</i>, <i>Natal</i>, <i>Transvaal</i>.<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Liliaceae</span>. Tribe <span class="smcap">Aloineae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Aloe</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 776.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Aloe ferox</b>, <i>Miller, Gard. Dict.</i> ed. viii. No. 22; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. vi. p. 326.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>This species of <i>Aloe</i> is unique among the South African representatives
+of the genus as being of some economic importance. The thick juice of
+the leaves yields the commercial product “aloes.” The method of
+preparing “aloes” is as follows: A hole is scooped in the ground and
+lined with a skin, and the cut ends of the leaves are placed on the skin
+so that the juice exudes and collects. The thick juice is then heated,
+and on cooling the “aloes” crystallise out.</p>
+
+<p><i>Aloe ferox</i> is very common in parts of the south-eastern Cape Province
+and in the midlands of Natal, and the plants form a very characteristic
+feature in the landscape. Plants may reach a height of 8 to 12 feet, and
+the simple stem is crowned with a dense rosette of leaves, while the
+lower portion of the stem is covered with the remains of the leaves.</p>
+
+<p>Our plate was prepared from a specimen flowering at the Division of
+Botany, Pretoria.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;<i>Stem</i> simple. <i>Leaves</i> many in a dense terminal rosette,
+varying from 0·5 to 1 m. long, 10 to 15 cm. broad below and gradually
+narrowing above, convex on the lower surface, concave on the upper
+surface, prickly on the edges; prickles stout, slightly recurved.
+<i>Inflorescence</i> a terminal branched raceme. <i>Racemes</i> up to 0·6 m. long,
+very dense. <i>Bracts</i> ovate, cuspidate. <i>Perianth-segments</i> 1·3 cm. long,
+8 mm. broad, oblong, cucullate at the apex. <i>Filaments</i> linear; anthers
+not much broader than the filaments. <i>Style</i> cylindric, stigma simple.<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 169.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, leaf (× 1/8); Fig. 2, margin of leaf showing
+prickles; Fig. 3, cross-section of leaf; Fig. 4, bract; Fig. 5,
+flower bud; Fig. 6, mature flower; Fig. 7, perianth-segments; Fig.
+8, portion of inner and outer perianth-segments; Fig. 9, stamens,
+front and back view.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_010.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_010.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_170"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 170.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+<span class="smcap">LEUCADENDRON humifusum.</span><br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Proteaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Proteae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Leucadendron</span>, <i>R. Br.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 169.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Leucadendron humifusum</b>, <i>E. Mey. in Drege, Zwei. Pfl. Documente</i>,<br>
+pp. 64, 118, 198; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. v. sect. i. p. 549.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>This interesting species of <i>Leucadendron</i> was first collected by Drege
+between the years 1826 and 1829, and then completely lost sight of, as
+none of the later collectors are credited with finding it again. In
+August, 1922, Mr. T. P. Stokoe came across the plant on the Hottentot
+Holland Mountains, and thus had the honour of bringing to the notice of
+South African botanists a species which had not been collected for
+almost one hundred years. We take this opportunity of giving a fuller
+description of the plant than that appearing in the <i>Flora Capensis</i>,
+and describe the female plant for the first time.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;A shrub. <i>Branches</i> tomentose, at length becoming
+glabrous. <i>Leaves</i> 3·5 to 7 cm. long, 0·7 to 1·6 cm. broad (those
+surrounding the heads a little larger), oblong or oblong-lanceolate,
+with a blunt callous apex, slightly narrowed to a rather broad base,
+with 3 distinct veins from above the base, glabrous. <i>Male head</i>
+sessile, 2·5 to 3 cm. long (including the flowers), 2·5 cm. in diameter,
+surrounded by about 8 series of involucral bracts. <i>Involucral bracts</i>
+1·15 to 1·3 cm. long, 8 to 8·5 mm. broad, oblong, the outer shortly
+cuspidate and with ciliated margins, inner rounded at the apex and
+without cilia, all glabrous. <i>Receptacle</i> 1 cm. high, 1 cm. in diameter,
+club-shaped. <i>Perianth-tube</i> 7 mm. long, somewhat compressed, glabrous;
+lobes 8 mm. long, linear, obtuse at the apex, glabrous. <i>Anthers</i> 5 mm.
+long, linear. <i>Style</i> 1·1 cm. long, terete, pilose below; stigma faintly
+two-lobed. <i>Female-head</i> 1·6 cm. long, 2 cm. in diameter, surrounded by
+about<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> 4 series of involucral bracts. <i>Involucral bracts</i> 1·2 to 1·5 cm.
+long, up to 1·4 cm. broad, ovate, shortly cuspidate, obtuse, the outer
+ciliated, the inner without cilia, all glabrous. <i>Receptacle</i> 1 cm.
+high, 6 mm. broad, conical. <i>Perianth-tube</i> 8 mm. long, compressed,
+long-pilose; limb 2 mm. long, linear, obtuse, glabrous. <i>Staminodes</i>
+0·75 mm. long. <i>Ovary</i> 1 mm. long, 0·75 mm. in diameter, ellipsoid,
+pilose; style 1 cm. long, linear, gradually narrowing to the base;
+stigma flat and oblique.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 170.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, female head; Fig. 2, bract; Fig. 3,
+longitudinal section of female head; Fig. 4, female flower; Fig. 5,
+pistil; Fig. 6, male head; Fig. 7, bract; Fig. 8, longitudinal
+section of male head; Fig. 9, male flower.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_011.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_011.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_171"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 171.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+ALOE <span class="smcap">MARLOTHII</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Transvaal.</i><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Lilaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Aloineae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Aloe</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 776.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Aloe Marlothii</b>, <i>Berger in Engl. Bot. Jahrb.</i> vol. xxxviii. p. 87.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p><i>Aloe Marlothii</i> is a very close ally of <i>A. ferox</i> figured on Plate
+169, but a careful comparison of the two will show points of difference
+which enables one to distinguish the two species. The inflorescence in
+<i>A. Marlothii</i> has the primary branches horizontal and the flowers are
+more or less on one side of the axis, and not arranged so as to form a
+cylindric raceme, as in <i>A. ferox</i>. The leaves of the species also
+differ, those of <i>A. Marlothii</i> being concave-convex in cross-section
+and with both the upper and lower surfaces bearing prickles, while in
+<i>A. ferox</i> the leaf is biconvex in cross-section.</p>
+
+<p>Plants of <i>A. Marlothii</i> up to 15 ft. high are often found, and they
+make a very ornamental show in the rockery.</p>
+
+<p>Our plate was prepared from specimens grown at the Division of Botany,
+Pretoria.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;<i>Leaves</i> up to 1 m. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,
+acute, concave-convex in cross-section, prickly on the face and back,
+with the margins armed with prickles. <i>Inflorescence</i> a branched raceme,
+with the primary branches horizontal. <i>Flowers</i> more or less secund.
+<i>Bracts</i> broadly ovate, shortly acuminate. <i>Perianth</i> tubular. <i>Stamens</i>
+at length exserted. <i>Ovary</i> ellipsoid, style cylindric, at length
+exserted; stigma small.<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 171.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, plant, much reduced; Fig. 2, median
+longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 3, bract; Fig. 4, part of
+stamen; Fig. 5, pistil.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_012.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_012.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_172"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 172.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+<span class="smcap">HYPOXIS rooperi.</span><br>
+<br>
+<i>Basutoland</i>, <i>Cape Province</i>, <i>Natal</i>, <i>Transvaal</i>.<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Amaryllidaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Hypoxideae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Hypoxis</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 717.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Hypoxis Rooperi</b>, <i>Moore in Gard. Comp. 1</i>, 65, cum icone; <i>Fl. Cap.</i><br>
+vol. vi. p. 188.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>The accompanying plate is our first illustration of a characteristic
+South African genus, namely, <i>Hypoxis</i>. The genus contains over sixty
+species, of which number more than forty are found in the Union, the
+remainder being natives of tropical Africa, tropical Asia, Australia and
+America.</p>
+
+<p>The species is acaulescent, with a large underground corm crowned with a
+ring of bristles, and bears a number of distichous leaves. The
+flower-stalks arise from the axils of the leaves.</p>
+
+<p>It is quite a common plant in the south-eastern portion of the Cape
+Province, and extends through East Griqualand into Natal and northwards
+into the Drakensbergen round Barberton. It has, however, also been
+recorded from the Potchefstroom District in the Transvaal.</p>
+
+<p>In winter the leaves die down, but appear again as soon as the frosts
+cease, and sometimes long before the summer rains commence the plants
+are in full bloom in the veld.</p>
+
+<p>Our plate was prepared from specimens flowering at the Division of
+Botany, Pretoria.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;<i>Leaves</i> up to 30 cm. long, 3·2 cm. broad, strap-shaped,
+narrowing upwards, falcate, folded from the midrib, closely and
+distinctly ribbed, almost glabrous on the upper surface, softly pilose
+on the back and margins. <i>Peduncles</i> much shorter than the leaves,
+villous. <i>Bracts</i> 1·3 cm. long, linear, acute, villous on the back.
+<i>Pedicels</i><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> up to 1·6 cm. long, villous. <i>Outer perianth-segments</i> 2·2
+cm. long, 8 mm. broad, oblong, obtuse; inner segments 2·1 cm. long, 1·5
+cm. broad, elliptic, obtuse. <i>Filaments</i> shorter than the anthers.
+<i>Ovary</i> subglobose, villous, stigmas 3-lobed, papillose on the margins.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 172.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, plant, much reduced; Fig. 2, portion of
+peduncle showing bracts and part of pedicels; Fig. 3, flower,
+surface view; Fig. 4, flower, back view; Fig. 5, anthers; Fig. 6,
+stigma, side and top views; Fig. 7, transverse section of ovary.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_013.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_013.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_173"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 173.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+<span class="smcap">CRASSULA columnaris.</span><br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Crassulaceae.</span><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Crassula</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. i. p. 657.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Crossula columnaris</b>, <i>Linn. f. Suppl. 191</i>; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. ii. p. 358.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>This quaint little <i>Crassula</i> may be found in parts of the Karroo and
+also in Namaqualand. It has on several occasions been collected in the
+neighbourhood of Matjesfontein and Ceres. In its native home, where it
+is usually exposed to the full force of the sun’s rays, it is far more
+compact than is shown in our illustration, which was made from a plant
+grown partly in the shelter of a tree. It is easily cultivated on the
+rockery if not kept too moist, as an abundance of water causes the plant
+to rot. It is a charming object when in flower, and growers of South
+African succulents should certainly try to secure specimens of this
+species, as in shape it is more or less unique in the genus <i>Crassula</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Our plate was prepared from specimens presented by Mr. A. J. Austin of
+Matjesfontein, and grown at the Division of Botany, Pretoria. We are
+indebted to Dr. R. Marloth for a photograph of the plant as it grows,
+and part of the plate has been prepared from this.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;<i>Leaves</i> 2·8 cm. broad, usually less than 1 cm. long,
+deeply concave on the inner face. <i>Inflorescence</i> a compact globose
+head. <i>Calyx</i> shortly campanulate at the base; lobes linear-spathulate,
+fringed above with papillose hairs. <i>Corolla</i> somewhat ventricose below,
+tubular above; lobes linear-spathulate. <i>Stamens</i> much shorter than the
+corolla-lobes. <i>Hypogynous glands</i> spathulate above, narrowed into a
+long claw. <i>Carpels</i> ventricose below, narrowed upwards, somewhat
+recurved above.<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 173.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, a single leaf and cross-section of leaf; Fig.
+2, single flower; Fig. 3, corolla laid open showing the stamens;
+Fig. 4, calyx-lobe, much enlarged; Fig. 5, corolla-lobe, enlarged;
+Fig. 6, gynaecium, showing hypogynous glands.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_014.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_014.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_174"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 174.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+SENECIO <span class="smcap">TAMOIDES</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province, Natal, Transvaal.</i><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Compositae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Senecionideae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Senecio</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. ii. p. 446.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Senecis tamoides</b>, <i>DC. Prodr.</i> vol. vi. p. 403; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. iii. p. 404.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>The species here figured belongs to a small group of species in the
+genus (Section <i>Scandentes</i>), which is characterised by its members
+being climbing, half-climbing or trailing plants. <i>Senecio tamoides</i> is
+a very common plant in the bush and the coastal belt, and its large
+trusses of bright yellow, honey-scented flowers show up in strong
+contrast against the background of dark green foliage. At Durban, Natal,
+the flowers are frequently attacked by an insect, and as a result a gall
+is formed inside the flower head. The gall enlarges into a cylindric
+green body much longer than the flower-head, and each contains a single
+larva.</p>
+
+<p><i>Senecio tamoides</i> has been recorded from the Chipete Forest in
+Rhodesia, and was also collected by Mr. E. E. Galpin, F.L.S., at
+Barberton in the Transvaal.</p>
+
+<p>Our illustration was made from specimens collected by Miss K. A.
+Lansdell on the Berea, Durban.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;A climbing herb. <i>Branches</i> glabrous. <i>Leaves</i> 2·2 to 5·5
+cm. long, 2·7 to 6 cm. broad, ovate, acuminate, subobtuse, somewhat
+hastate, with the margins acutely lobulate, glabrous. <i>Inflorescence</i> a
+many-headed corymb. <i>Involucral-bracts</i> about 6, 8 mm. long, 2 mm.
+broad, oblong-linear, obtuse, with membranous margins. <i>Ray-florets</i>:
+<i>Tube</i> 5 mm. long, cylindric; limb 6·5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, oblong.
+<i>Style</i> exserted; style branches filiform. <i>Disc-florets</i> male,
+cylindric, 6·5 mm. long, lobes ·75 mm. long, linear,<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span> obtuse. <i>Anthers</i>
+blunt. <i>Style-branches</i> linear, truncate. <i>Ovary</i> infertile, 3 mm. long,
+cylindric, ribbed, glabrous. <i>Pappus</i> copious.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 174.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, ray-floret; Fig. 2, disc-floret.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_015.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_015.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_175"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 175.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+GLADIOLUS <span class="smcap">TRISTIS</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Liliaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Ixieae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Gladiolus</span>, <i>Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 709.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Gladiolus tristis</b>, <i>Linn. Sp. Plant.</i> ed. 2, i. 53, ex parte; <i>Fl. Cap.</i><br>
+vol. vi. p. 139.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>There appears to be a great deal of confusion between this species of
+<i>Gladiolus</i> and <i>G. grandis</i>, even among the specimens quoted under
+these species in the “Flora Capensis”; and possibly when a large range
+of living specimens is examined the two species now upheld will be
+referred to a single species. <i>Gladiolus tristis</i> is quite a handsome
+member of the genus, and while not so highly coloured as some, the large
+semi-translucent flowers with such delicate markings have a charm of
+their own; besides which, the flowers are very sweetly scented. The
+species is readily raised from seed, and under proper cultivation it
+flowers about fifteen months after sowing.</p>
+
+<p>Our plate was made from plants grown by Dr. I. B. Pole Evans, C.M.G., at
+Irene near Pretoria.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;<i>Corm</i> 1·5 cm. in diameter, globose. <i>Produced leaves</i> 2
+or 3; the lowest up to 36 cm. long, 4-angled, appearing as a cross in
+transverse section, glabrous; upper leaves similar but shorter.
+<i>Inflorescence</i> usually 3-flowered. <i>Outer spathe-valves</i> 3·5 cm. long,
+lanceolate-oblong, acute; inner spathe-valve similar, but slightly
+curved and gradually narrowing upwards; lobes 3·5 cm. long, 2·8 cm.
+broad, ovate, bluntly acuminate, obtuse minutely apiculate. <i>Stamens</i>
+shorter than the style. <i>Style-branches</i> cuneate, papillose on the
+margins.<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 175.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, plant, much reduced; Fig. 2, corm, showing
+bulbil; Fig. 3, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 4,
+portion of leaf; Fig. 5, cross-section of leaf; Fig. 6, anther with
+part of filament; Fig. 7, stigmae with part of style; Fig. 8,
+ovary.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_016.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_016.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_176"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 176.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+SARCOPHYTE <span class="smcap">SANGUINEA</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Balanophoraceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Sarcophyteae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Sarcophyte</span>, <i>Sparrm.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 234.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Sarcophyte sanguinea</b>, <i>Sparrm. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1776</i>,<br>
+300, t. 7; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. v. sect. ii. p. 213.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>The family <i>Balanophoraceae</i>, to which our plant belongs, comprises
+plants all of which are parasitic on the roots of trees and shrubs.
+There are about fifty species, spread over about fifteen genera, widely
+distributed in tropical and sub-tropical regions. In South Africa the
+family is represented by two genera and four species.</p>
+
+<p><i>Sarcophyte sanguinea</i> is usually found as a parasite on the roots of
+<i>Acacia Karroo</i>, but so far as we know does not follow the same
+distribution as its host, but is confined to the eastern portion of the
+Cape Province. The plant really consists of a large inflorescence
+arising from the ground, and the two sexes are distinct. When in flower
+it has a most objectionable stench, so much so that the presence of a
+plant is known long before it is actually seen.</p>
+
+<p>The accompanying plate illustrates a male plant.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;Male plant about 30 cm. high. <i>Root-stock</i> thick,
+irregularly lobed, verrucose; stem short erect; leaves reduced to oblong
+obtuse or subacute scales up to 2 cm. long and 1·2 cm. wide.
+<i>Inflorescence</i> much-branched; flowers usually in pairs on short
+pedicels which are connate below. <i>Perianth-segments</i> navicular, almost
+patent, very thick and fleshy, subacute, 4 mm. long, 2·5 mm. wide;
+filaments 3 to nearly 4 mm. long, cylindrical; anthers terminal,
+scarcely wider than the filaments. Female plants very similar to the
+male, but rather shorter, flowers numerous in subglobose shortly stalked
+heads about 6 mm. in diameter. <i>Ovary</i><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span> 1-3-celled; ovule solitary,
+pendulous; stigma discoid, sessile; fruit a syncarpium; seed about 1 mm.
+long (<i>Flora Capensis</i>).</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 176.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, scale-like leaf; Fig. 2, portion of male
+inflorescence; Fig. 3, single male flower, showing the three
+perianth-segments and the 3 stamens; Fig. 4, single stamen.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_017.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_017.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_177"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 177.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+PROTEA <span class="smcap">PITYPHYLLA</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Proteaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Proteae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Protea</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 169.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Protea pityphylla</b>, <i>Phillips in Kew Bulletin</i>, 1910, 234; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. v.<br>
+sect. i. p. 594.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>We have pleasure in showing for the first time this species of <i>Protea</i>,
+hitherto not figured in botanical publications. On a previous occasion
+we published an illustration of a broad-leaved variety, <i>P. pityphylla</i>,
+var. <i>latifolia</i> (see Plate 108). Another variety with short leaves
+resembling those of <i>P. rosacea</i> has been collected in the Ronde
+Bokkeveld, but it may be at once distinguished from this species by the
+foliaceous appendages of the outer bracts.</p>
+
+<p>The late Dr. MacOwan distributed the species as a “sp. nov.” in 1888,
+and it is only within recent years that it has been at all largely
+collected.</p>
+
+<p>The species has been successfully cultivated at the National Botanic
+Gardens, Kirstenbosch, and is well worth the attention of gardeners
+interested in plants typically South African.</p>
+
+<p>Our plate was prepared from specimens presented by Dr. R. Marloth.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;<i>Branches</i> glabrous; leaves 6 to 8 cm. long, about 1 mm.
+wide, needle-shaped, acute, pungent, channelled and prominently costate
+on the upper face, glabrous. <i>Head</i>, sessile, 4 to 4·5 cm. long, about
+6·5 cm. in diameter, cernuous. <i>Involucral-bracts</i> 7-seriate, glabrous;
+outer ovate, acuminate, obtuse or acute, the lowest produced into long
+foliaceous appendages resembling the leaves, inner oblong, slightly
+concave, exceeding the flowers. <i>Perianth-sheath</i> 1·5 cm. long, dilated,
+3-keeled and 7-nerved below, scarious, rufously setulose within in the
+upper part, otherwise glabrous; lip 5 mm.<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span> long, 3-toothed, 3-keeled,
+setose below; teeth subequal, 0·5 mm. long. <i>Stamens</i> all fertile;
+filaments 0·5 mm. long, dilated, concave; anthers oblong-linear, 3 mm.
+long, apical glands 0·25 mm. long, ovate, subacute, somewhat swollen on
+the inner face. <i>Ovary</i> 2 mm. long, obovate-oblong, covered with long
+reddish-yellow hairs; hypogynous scales 1 mm. long, oval-oblong; style
+up to 2·2 cm. long, widened and much compressed from the base upwards
+for 6 mm., then much constricted and strongly bent and subulate, the
+slender portion obliquely arching inwards, glabrous: stigma 3 mm. long,
+obtuse (<i>Flora Capensis</i>).</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 177.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, single flower; Fig. 2, single flower opened;
+Fig. 3, lip of perianth-segments showing the three stamens; Fig. 4,
+receptacle.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_018.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_018.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_178"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 178.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+ALOE <span class="smcap">RUPESTRIS</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Namaqualand.</i><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Liliaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Aloineae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Aloe</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 776.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Aloe rupestris</b>, <i>Baker in Flora Capensis</i>, vol. vi. p. 326.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>This remarkable <i>Aloe</i> belongs to the same section of the genus as <i>A.
+ferox</i>, which we figured on Plate 169, but differs in having leaves
+which are not prickly on the under surface. It is only found, so far as
+we know, in Namaqualand, where it grows on rocky ground, and was first
+distributed by MacOwan. The locality from which the original specimens
+came was between Port Nolloth and Spektakel. The plant grows to a height
+of 10 to 12 feet, and produces a large terminal panicle of racemes which
+overtops the leaves. The young flowers are greenish-yellow in colour,
+but become red when adult. This difference in colour between the young
+and adult flowers is not an uncommon character in the genus, and we have
+noted it before in <i>A. Wickensii</i> (Plate 41).</p>
+
+<p>The plant from which our plate was prepared was presented by Dr. R.
+Marloth, and flowered at the Division of Botany, Pretoria, in September
+1924.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;<i>Stem</i> almost 2 m. high, thick. <i>Leaves</i> in a rosette at
+the apex of the stem, up to 60 cm. long, 5 cm. broad near the base,
+lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, not prickly on either side, with small
+deltoid marginal teeth. <i>Inflorescence</i> much-branched; racemes dense, 15
+to 20 cm. long. <i>Bracts</i> small. <i>Pedicels</i> short. <i>Perianth</i> over 2 cm.
+long; segments divided almost to the base, oblong, with a distinct green
+keel. <i>Stamens</i> and <i>style</i> much exserted.<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 178.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, plant, much reduced; Fig. 2, median
+longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 3, flowers in various stages
+of development; Fig. 4, stamen; Fig. 5, apex of style.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_019.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_019.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_179"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 179.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+SENECIO <span class="smcap">FULGENS</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Natal, Transvaal.</i><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Compositae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Senecionideae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Senecio</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. ii. p. 446.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Senecio fulgens</b>, <i>Nicholson Dict. Gard.</i> vol. iii. p. 420; Kleinia<br>
+fulgens, <i>Hook. Bot. Mag.</i> t. 5590.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>This species of <i>Senecio</i> belongs to the section <i>Kelinoidei</i> of the
+genus, to which section <i>Senecio stapelliaeformis</i>, figured on Plate 28,
+is also referred. The species was first introduced into England from
+Natal by a Mr. Plant in 1886, and flowered at Kew the same year. From
+these specimens the plate in the “Botanical Magazine” was made.</p>
+
+<p>A comparison of the present plate with that of the “Botanical Magazine”
+quoted above will show that our plant has a more lax habit, and this is
+to be explained by the fact that it is growing under the shelter of a
+large tree. The shape and dentition of the leaves vary considerably. The
+young leaves are narrowly (1·5 cm.) lanceolate, while adult leaves are
+broadly (4·5 cm.) obovate. Some of the leaves are quite entire, while
+others are remotely toothed. All these variations are found on the same
+plant. On young branches the leaves are grouped in more or less of a
+rosette at the apex of the branch.</p>
+
+<p>The species is well worthy of cultivation, as it grows luxuriantly and
+flowers profusely, and often produces flowering stems over 30 cm. long.
+The flowers are coral-red (R.C.S., Plate XIII).</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;A herbaceous shrub up to ·6 m. high. <i>Leaves</i> more or less
+crowded at the base, 6 to 12 cm. long, 1·5 to 4·5 cm. broad, lanceolate,
+lanceolate-obovate to obovate, narrowed at the base, entire or remotely
+toothed, glaucous, fleshy; the older leaves channelled on the upper
+surface in<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span> the lower portion and distinctly keeled beneath. <i>Flowering
+stems</i> up to 30 cm. long, with scattered leaves 2 to 9 cm. apart, which
+decrease in size upwards, usually simple. <i>Heads</i> homogamous, solitary.
+<i>Involucral-bracts</i> 1·9 cm. long, concrete, forming a tube 1 cm. in
+diameter and oblong in outline, produced into nine lanceolate lobes
+above. <i>Receptacle</i> slightly concave. <i>Corolla-tube</i> 1·9 cm. long,
+cylindric, very gradually widening upwards; lobes 2 mm. long, spreading,
+ovate-oblong, obtuse. <i>Anthers</i> blunt at the base, with a lanceolate
+apical appendage. <i>Style-branches</i> much recurved, obtuse, with marginal
+papillae. <i>Ovary</i> 5 mm. long, cylindric, glabrous. <i>Pappus</i> 1·2 cm.
+long, of many fine bristles. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2738.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 179.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, plant, much reduced; Fig. 2, cross-section of
+leaf; Fig. 3, longitudinal section of head; Fig. 4, median
+longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 5, anthers; Fig. 6, style;
+Fig. 7, fruit and pappus.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_020.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_020.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_180"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 180.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+ALOE <span class="smcap">SESSILIFLORA</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Transvaal.</i><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Liliaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Aloineae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Aloe</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 776.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Aloe sessiliflora</b>, <i>Pole Evans in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr.</i> vol. v. p. 708.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>The species of <i>Aloe</i> figured on the accompanying plate belongs to the
+less conspicuous members of the genus. The small cream-yellow flowers do
+not make the inflorescence very attractive. <i>Aloe sessiliflora</i> was
+collected in the Barberton District by Mr. J. E. Wickens, and flowered
+at the Union Buildings for the first time in June and July of 1914. Mr.
+Geo. Thorncroft subsequently collected the plant near Barberton. During
+the winter months the leaves are of a distinct reddish colour, while in
+summer they are bright green. The flowers contain drops of very dark
+nectar at the base of the perianth.</p>
+
+<p>Our plate was made from specimens growing at the Division of Botany,
+Pretoria.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;<i>Stem</i> up to 90 cm. high. <i>Leaves</i> in a dense rosette at
+the apex of the stem, 45 to 60 cm. long. 6 to 8 cm. broad, spreading or
+recurved, fleshy, channelled above, convex beneath, with the margins
+toothed. <i>Peduncle</i> simple, 60 to 75 cm. long, laterally compressed,
+covered with numerous oblong brown bracts. <i>Spike</i> densely
+many-flowered, more or less cylindric; bracts 10 mm. long, 7 mm. wide,
+ovate-cuspidate, 3-nerved. <i>Flowers</i> campanulate-cylindric; perianth 14
+mm. long; segments free; the outer 5 mm. broad, spathulate,
+fleshy-coloured with three longitudinal dark nerves; the inner 8 mm.
+broad, yellowish at the edges and with a reddish or greenish median
+line. <i>Stamens</i> and <i>style</i> protruding 8 to 10 mm. beyond the perianth.
+<i>Capsule</i> 9 to 10 mm. long, cylindric-oblong, enclosed in the dry
+peri-<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span>anth. <i>Seeds</i> 3 mm. long, three-angled, greyish, very narrowly
+winged. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2880.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 180.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, habit; Fig. 2, median section of flower; Fig.
+3, pistil; Fig. 4, stamen; Fig. 5, bract.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_021.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_021.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_181"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 181.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+STAPELIA <span class="smcap">GIGANTEA</span> var. <span class="smcap">PALLIDA</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Transvaal (?).</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Asclepiadaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Stapelieae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Stapelia</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. ii. p. 784.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Stapelia gigantea</b>, <i>N.E. Br.</i> var. <b>Pallida</b>, <i>Phillips</i> var. nov., a typo<br>
+corolla depressiore differt.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>The <i>Stapelia</i> figured on the accompanying Plate is very near <i>S.
+gigantea</i>, N.E. Br., from which it differs, however, in having the disc
+portion of the corolla more depressed and being much lighter in colour.
+It appears to be an intermediate form between this species and <i>S.
+nobilis</i>, N.E. Br., differing from the latter species in not having such
+a cup-shaped corolla-disc and not having the lobes of the outer corona
+3-toothed. The locality in which the plant is found is not known, and
+the specimen from which our Plate was prepared was kindly presented by
+Dr. A. J. T. Janse, who grew it in his rockery.</p>
+
+<p>Description:&mdash;<i>Stems</i> robust, bright green, finely pubescent,
+prominently ridged, with each ridge ending in a tooth-like leaf.
+<i>Flowers</i> solitary. <i>Pedicel</i> 5 cm. long, terete, finely pubescent.
+<i>Sepals</i> 1·1 cm. long, lanceolate, acute, pubescent. <i>Corolla</i> 25 cm. in
+diameter when expanded; lobes 10 cm. long, 3 cm. broad at the base,
+ovate, long-attenuate, pubescent without, transversely rugose and with
+fine purple hairs on the inner face; disc shallowly depressed, covered
+with long soft purple hairs. <i>Outer</i> corona-lobes oblong; inner
+corona-lobes deeply cleft, with the outer lobes plate-like and the inner
+lobes linear. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2891.)<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">PLATE 181.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, side view of flower; Fig. 2, corona; Fig. 3,
+cross-section through stem.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_022.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_022.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap"><a id="Plate_182"></a>Plate 182.</span></p>
+
+<p class="c">
+GLADIOLUS <span class="smcap">CRUENTUS</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Natal, Basutoland.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Iridaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Ixieae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Gladiolus</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 709.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Gladiolus cruentus</b>, <i>Moore in Gard. Chron.</i> 1868, 1138; <i>Bot. Mag.</i> t. 5810;<br>
+<i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. vi. p. 157.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>This is the first opportunity we have had of figuring a species of
+<i>Gladiolus</i> belonging to the section Cardinales. As far as our records
+go the species appears to be little known to botanical science. In 1868
+a Mr. Bull flowered it in his nursery at Chelsea, and it was from
+specimens supplied by Mr. Bull that the Plate in the <i>Botanical
+Magazine</i> was prepared. We are indebted to Mr. L. F. Wacher, who sent us
+specimens from Basutoland in 1923, for information about this beautiful
+plant. Mr. Wacher states that the plant grows in many places in the
+mountain area of Basutoland, and it is probable that the species is
+confined to the high mountain regions of Natal and Basutoland. While we
+have no definite information as to the precise habitat, there appears to
+be little doubt that it favours similar localities to <i>G. cardinalis</i> of
+the Cape Province, which is usually found growing near waterfalls.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;<i>Corm</i> 3·5 cm. in diameter, with thick cylindric roots.
+<i>Leaves</i> about four, 16 to 30 cm. long, 1·5 to 2·5 cm. broad, ensiform,
+glabrous. <i>Spike</i> few-flowered. <i>Spathe-valves</i> large, lanceolate; the
+lower from 7 to 15 cm. long. <i>Perianth-tube</i> funnel-shaped, curved;
+upper segments 5 to 6·5 cm. long, obovate-spathulate; lower segments
+about 4 cm. long, with a white blotch at the throat covered with red
+spots. <i>Style-branches</i> papillose on the margins.<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 182.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2,
+style showing the style-branches.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_023.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_023.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_183"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 183.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+GAZANIA <span class="smcap">SUFFRUTICOSA</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>S.W. Africa.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Compositae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Arctotideae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Gazania</span>, <i>Gaertn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant</i>, vol. ii. p. 459.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Gazania suffruticosa</b>, <i>Muschler in Engl. Bot. Jahrb.</i> vol. 46, p. 120.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>In a collection of succulents received from South-West Africa and
+planted at the Division of Botany, Pretoria, fruits of this <i>Gazania</i>
+were evidently mixed with the soil, as a plant grew in the succulent
+bed. It is a somewhat remarkable species and differs considerably in
+habit from the two species previously figured on Plates 51 and 64. The
+whole plant is covered with cobwebby hairs. The leaves are somewhat
+succulent, extremely brittle, and snap when bent; they are also easily
+snapped from the branches.</p>
+
+<p>The single specimen in the garden has made vigorous growth and promises
+to do well under cultivation. It flowered in May of this year.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;A branched herb up to 30 cm. high. <i>Branches</i> cobwebby.
+<i>Leaves</i> 5·5 to 7·5 cm. long, 1 to 1·5 cm. broad above,
+obovate-spathulate, narrowed into a petiole, pungent at the apex,
+irregularly lobed, or toothed, with the lobes and teeth tipped with a
+short pungent mucro, cobwebby above and beneath. <i>Flower-heads</i> in the
+axils of the leaves. <i>Peduncles</i> slightly longer, as long as or shorter
+than the leaves with tufts of cobwebby hairs. <i>Involucre</i> 1·8 cm. long,
+6 mm. in diameter below, the concrete portion oblong in outline,
+inflexed at the base, sparsely cobwebby; outermost lobes 2·5 to 4 mm.
+long, ovate, acute; inner lobes 1 cm. long, ovate, acuminate, acute,
+with membranous margin. <i>Ray-florets</i> neuter; tube 9 mm. long, somewhat
+compressed; limb 1·6 cm. long, 7 mm. broad, obovate-elliptic, yellow,
+with a black eye-spot. <i>Disc-florets</i>: tube 7 mm. long, cylindric; lobes
+1·5 mm. long, oblong, shortly acuminate, subobtuse. <i>Anthers</i><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span> minutely
+sagittate at the base. <i>Ovary</i> very villous; style-branches linear,
+obtuse. <i>Pappus</i> of many delicate very narrow scales 5 mm. long.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 183.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, involucre; Fig. 2, longitudinal section through
+involucre; Fig. 3, ray-floret; Fig. 4, disc-floret.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_024.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_024.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_184"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 184.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+LACHENALIA <span class="smcap">RUBIDA</span> var. <span class="smcap">TIGRINA</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Liliaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Scilleae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Lachenalia</span>, <i>Jacq.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 807.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Lachenalia rubida</b>, <i>Jacq.</i> var. <b>tigrina</b>, <i>Bkr. Fl. Cap.</i> vol. vi. p. 424.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>On Plate 158 we figured a species <i>Lachenalia pendula</i> belonging to the
+same subgenus (<i>Eulachenalia</i>) as the species here described.
+<i>Lachenalia rubida</i> is a graceful little plant, though not so handsome
+as some species of the genus. It was figured by Jacquin between the
+years 1786-1793, from plants cultivated in Europe, so that it has been
+known for over 130 years to botanists.</p>
+
+<p>The species appears to be confined to the Clanwilliam, Calvinia and van
+Rhynsdorp Districts of the Cape Province, and as far as our records go
+does not appear to have been frequently collected.</p>
+
+<p>We are indebted to Mrs. E. Rood of van Rhynsdorp for the specimens from
+which our Plate was prepared.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;<i>Bulb</i> 1·5 cm. in diameter at the base, ovoid, white.
+<i>Produced leaves</i> 1 or 2, as long or slightly longer than the naked
+portion of the peduncle, with the free portion 1·8 to 2·2 cm. broad,
+elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, with dark brown blotches on a
+dark green background, sometimes the spots absent, convolute and
+clasping the peduncle for the greater portion of its length. <i>Peduncle</i>
+with maroon-coloured spots on a yellowish background; in concolorus
+leaves peduncle almost uniformly coloured. <i>Inflorescence</i> 6-7-flowered.
+<i>Bracts</i> forming small pockets from which the flowers arise. <i>Pedicels</i>
+3 mm. long. <i>Outer perianth-segments</i> O·5 cm. shorter than the inner,
+slightly gibbous at the base, thickly speckled with red spots on a
+yellowish background; inner perianth-segments oblong,<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span> obtuse. <i>Stigma</i>
+capitulate. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2901.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 184.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of a flower; Fig.
+2, single flower; Fig. 3, anthers; Fig. 4, pistil.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_025.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_025.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_103">[Pg 103]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_185"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 185.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+PROTEA <span class="smcap">Mundii</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Proteaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Proteae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Protea</i>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 169.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Protea Mundii</b>, <i>Klotz in Otto and Dietr. Garten-Zeit.</i> 1838, 113; <i>Fl. Cap.</i><br>
+vol. v. sect. i. p. 579.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>The species of <i>Protea</i> figured on the accompanying Plate represents a
+member of the section <i>Exertae</i> of the genus. This section comprises
+four species which may be readily recognised by the fact that in the
+mature head the perianth is spirally coiled in the open flowers, leaving
+the style exserted. <i>Protea Mundii</i> is closely related to another
+species found in the same localities, viz. <i>P. lacticolor</i>, Salisb., and
+the two were confused by E. Meyer, who named them both <i>P. penicillata</i>.
+As will be seen from the illustration, the stigma is very distinctly
+capitate at the apex, and as this character is unique in the genus the
+species can be easily recognised.</p>
+
+<p>The plant is found in the mountains round Worcester, extends into the
+George, Knysna and Humansdorp Districts, and then passes through
+Uitenhage and Stutterheim into the Transkei.</p>
+
+<p>The specimens were collected by Dr. I. B. Pole Evans, C.M.G., in the
+George District in July 1925.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;Branches tomentellous to tomentose above. <i>Leaves</i> 4 to 11
+cm. long, 1·2 to 3·2 cm. broad, lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic,
+subobtuse, narrowing at the base, distinctly veined, glabrous or the
+youngest leaves sometimes loosely pilose. <i>Head</i> sessile, 7 to 8 cm.
+long, about 5 cm. in diam. <i>Involucral-bracts</i> 11-12-seriate; outer
+ovate, obtuse, silky on the back, green, ciliate; inner oblong or
+spathulate-oblong, whitish pubescent to tomentose, fringed with white
+cilia, shorter than the styles; perianth-sheath 4 cm. long, slender and
+thin above the middle, gradually dilated and<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_104">[Pg 104]</a></span> 5-nerved below, not
+keeled, the upper half at length coiled up, loosely hairy; lip 1·5 cm.
+long, tridentate, glabrous, with a dense tuft of hairs at the apex;
+lateral teeth 2 mm. long; median tooth 1·5 mm. long; stamens all
+fertile; filaments 1 mm. long, channelled down the middle; anthers
+linear, 6 mm. long; apical glands 0·5 mm. long, ovate, subacuminate,
+subacute, keeled on the inner face; ovary covered with a tuft of long
+brown hairs; style 5 cm. long, almost straight, keeled on one side,
+compressed above the ovary, then more or less terete, glabrous; stigma 6
+mm. long, furrowed, subcapitate at the apex, abruptly and obliquely
+passing into the much stouter style. (National Herb., Pretoria, No.
+2918.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 185.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, single flower; Fig. 2, receptacle.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span></p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_026.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_026.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_186"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 186.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+STRELITZIA <span class="smcap">Reginae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Scitamineae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Museae.</span><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Strelitzia</span>, <i>Ait. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 656.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Strelitzia Reginae</b>, <i>Banks in Ait. Hort. Kew.</i> ed. 1, i. 285, t. 2; <i>Fl. Cap.</i><br>
+vol. v. sect. iii. p. 316.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>In 1792 this plant was figured in the <i>Botanical Magazine</i>, (Plate 119),
+but had previously been figured by Sir Joseph Banks. <i>Strelitzia
+Reginae</i>, which was introduced into the Royal Gardens at Kew in 1773,
+excited a considerable amount of interest when it flowered. In the
+number of the <i>Botanical Magazine</i> quoted above a double Plate was
+devoted to the illustration of the flowers so as to give “readers an
+opportunity of seeing a coloured representation of one of the most
+scarce and magnificent plants introduced into this country.” That the
+plant is a particularly handsome one there can be no doubt and it has
+been appropriately named the “Bird-of-paradise flower”; the Afrikaans
+name is “Gele piesang.” The species is native of the south-eastern and
+eastern districts of the Cape Province.</p>
+
+<p>The specimen illustrated on the accompanying Plate was grown at the
+Division of Botany, Pretoria.</p>
+
+<p>The following description is taken mainly from the <i>Flora Capensis</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;Stemless; leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, cuneate at the
+base, up to 0·5 m. long and 10 cm. wide, entire, undulate, especially in
+the lower part, quite glabrous, bright green above, glaucescent beneath;
+petiole up to 1·25 m. long; peduncle as long as the petiole. <i>Bracts</i>
+tubular, oblique and acute at the mouth, uppermost one cymbiform,
+acuminate, up to 20 cm. long, green, edged with purple. <i>Sepals</i>
+lanceolate, 7 to 10 cm. long, orange-yellow. <i>Petals</i> dark blue, blade
+of the lower two 5 cm. long, with a rounded basal auricle; claw<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span> 2·5 cm.
+long; upper petal ovate, 2·5 cm. long. <i>Stamens</i> reaching to the top of
+the longer petals; anthers narrowly linear, twice as long as the
+filaments; style exserted, with 3 linear branches 2·5 cm. long. <i>Fruit</i>
+a capsule; seeds covered with reddish woolly hairs. (National Herb.,
+Pretoria, No. 2915.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 186.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, plant much reduced; Fig. 2, median longitudinal
+section of a flower.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_027.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_028.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_187"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 187.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+ALOE <span class="smcap">ARBORESCENS</span> var. <span class="smcap">FRUTESCENS</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Transvaal.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Liliaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Aloineae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Aloe</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant</i>, vol. iii. p. 776.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Aloe arborescens</b>, <i>Miller, Gard. Chron.</i> ed. viii. No. 3; var. <b>frutescens</b>,<br>
+<i>Bkr. Fl. Cap.</i> vol. vi. p. 322.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>This <i>Aloe</i> is widely distributed along the eastern mountain range and
+is known to extend northwards as far as the Victoria Falls. The many
+stems which grow together give the plant a bush-like appearance which
+makes a very effective display in a large rockery, and it has the
+advantage over many other species of the genus in that the inflorescence
+is not nipped by a severe frost. The species also lends itself admirably
+to growing on rough stone pillars forming an entrance to a drive.</p>
+
+<p>Our specimen was collected on the hills near Haenertsburg on the
+Drakensbergen in June 1914, and cultivated at the Division of Botany,
+Pretoria.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;An arborescent branched shrub. <i>Leaves</i> up to 0·5 m. long,
+about 4 cm. broad at the base, gradually tapering to the apex, almost
+flat on the upper surface, convex on the lower surface, with ovate
+somewhat incurved teeth 1 cm. apart below, about 1·3 cm. apart above,
+glabrous. <i>Inflorescence</i> solitary or 2-3 from each rosette of leaves,
+unbranched. <i>Peduncle</i> 7 mm. in diameter, cylindric with scattered
+membranous bracts. <i>Floral-bracts</i> membranous, 1·3 cm. long, 9 mm.
+broad, oblong, with straight margins, distinctly veined. <i>Pedicels</i> 2
+cm. long, elongating in the old flowers. <i>Raceme</i> dense, up to 22 cm.
+long. <i>Young flowers</i> erect-spreading, cylindric, with a subacute apex;
+old flowers pendulous. <i>Perianth</i> (in open flowers) 3·2 cm. long; outer
+segments reddish, 5 mm. broad, obtuse; inner segments white, 9 mm.
+broad, with a distinct mid-rib, reddish below,<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span> greenish above, obtuse.
+<i>Stamens</i> projecting. <i>Ovary</i> 8 mm. long, cylindric; style 3·2 cm. long,
+cylindric; stigma minute. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2904.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 187.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, young and adult flowers; Fig. 2, median
+longitudinal section of a flower; Fig. 3, pistil; Fig. 4, bract.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_028.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_029.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_188"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 188.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+DERMATOBOTRYS <span class="smcap">Saundersii</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province, Natal.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Scrophulariaceae.</span><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Dermatobotrys</span>, <i>Bolus in Hook. Ic.</i> Pl. 1940.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Dermatobotrys Saundersii</b>, <i>Bolus in Hook. Ic.</i> Pl. Zwilt’s 1940; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. iv.<br>
+sect. ii. p. 206.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>This interesting member of the <i>Scrophulariaceae</i> is peculiar in that it
+grows as an epiphyte on other trees. Miss Pegler records it from the
+Kentani District as growing on the Cape Chestnut (<i>Calodendron
+capense</i>). It ranges from Kentani to Zululand. It differs also from most
+members of the family in having 5 well-developed stamens, and for this
+reason was first referred to the family <i>Solanaceae</i>, but the straight
+or almost straight embryo indicates an affinity with the family
+<i>Scrophulariaceae</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Saunders, who first collected the plant, described it as a parasite
+which killed the host on which it grew, but the late Dr. Medley Wood
+states that the plant has a tendency to fix itself to trees already
+dead.</p>
+
+<p>We are indebted to Mr. K. B. Jameson, Scottsville, Maritzburg, for the
+specimen from which our illustration was prepared.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;A glabrous epiphytic shrub; root-stock 1·25 m. high, about
+1 cm. thick but increasing towards the top to 5 cm., furrowed
+transversely as in a <i>Dahlia</i> root; rootlets fibrous; stems more or less
+quadrangular; ultimate branchlets 1·5 to 3 mm. thick. <i>Leaves</i> opposite,
+decussate, ovate or elliptical, acute or broadly pointed at the apex,
+more or less narrowed at the entire base, strongly toothed or
+repand-dentate, fleshy, red-veined, turning black-green in the dried
+state, 5 to 15 cm. long, 2·5 to 9 cm. broad; petioles 1 to 5 cm. long.
+<i>Flowers</i> clustered at the nodes on the branchlets, usually three
+together, bracteate at the base,<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span> about 4 cm. long; peduncles 1 to 3 mm.
+long, spreading; bract elliptic-linear, acute at both ends, about 2 cm.
+long, 5 mm. broad; calyx-segments lanceolate, acute, glabrous, 3 to 5
+mm. long. <i>Corolla</i> red; tube beset inside towards the base with stiff
+broad white hairs; lobes about 5 mm. long; anthers glabrous; style
+glabrous, slender, tapering towards the stigma. <i>Ovary</i> ovoid-conical,
+glabrous; ripe berry ovoid, blunt, smooth, about 2 cm. long, 1·8 cm.
+broad, green; embryo about 1/3 to 3/4 of the seed in length. (National
+Herb., Pretoria, No. 2917.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 188.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, single flower; Fig. 2, median longitudinal
+section of flower; Fig. 3, pistil.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_029.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_030.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_189"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 189.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+CRASSULA <span class="smcap">Laticephala</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Crassulaceae.</span><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Crassula</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant</i>, vol. i. p. 657.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Crassula laticephala</b>, <i>Schonl. in Rec. Albany Mus.</i> vol. ii. p. 457.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>The dwarf <i>Crassula</i> figured on the accompanying Plate was described by
+Dr. S. Schonland in 1913 from a specimen collected in the Riversdale
+District by Mr. J. E. A. Volschenk. The species is closely allied to <i>C.
+congesta</i>, N.E.Br., which we figured on Plate 115, and Dr. Schonland
+suggests that when more material is available it might be considered a
+variety of the latter species.</p>
+
+<p><i>Crassula laticephala</i> is confined, so far as we know, to the Riversdale
+District, and there only found in the Klein Karroo. We are indebted to
+Dr. J. Muir of Riversdale for the specimen figured.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;A dwarf succulent 4·5 cm. high. <i>Leaves</i> fleshy, 4-ranked,
+strongly reflexed, 3 cm. long, 1·2 cm. broad at the base, ovate,
+acuminate, obtuse, flat above with a distinct keel, somewhat convex
+beneath, scurfy. <i>Flowers</i> in heads 2·5 to 3 cm. in diameter surrounded
+by floral-leaves. <i>Floral-leaves</i> 1·2 cm. long, 1·5 cm. broad at the
+base, ovate, suddenly contracted into a fleshy cylindric appendage.
+<i>Receptacle</i> convex. <i>Floral-bracts</i> 4·5 mm. long, linear, ciliated.
+<i>Caylx-lobes</i> 3 mm. long, linear, cucullate at the apex, ciliate.
+<i>Petals</i> 5·5 mm. long, linear, slightly broadened below, concave.
+<i>Filaments</i> 1 mm. long, slender; anthers 1·25 mm. long, oblong.
+<i>Carpels</i> 2 mm. long. <i>Hypogynous scales</i> transversely oblong, on
+distinct stalks. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2936.)<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span></p>
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 189.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, flower-bud; Fig. 2, petal with 2 stamens; Fig.
+3, carpels; Fig. 4, longitudinal section of head showing convex
+receptacle; Fig. 5, cross-section through leaf; Fig. 6, leaf.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_030.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_031.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_190"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 190.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+HAEMANTHUS <span class="smcap">ALBIFLOS</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Amaryllidaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Amarylleae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Haemanthus</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 730.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Haemanthus albiflos</b>, <i>Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr.</i> i. 31, t. 59; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. vi.<br>
+p. 235.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>This species of <i>Haemanthus</i> was known to European horticulturists
+almost 150 years ago and was first shown in colour by Jacquin in 1797.
+In the <i>Botanical Magazine</i> it was again figured in 1810 (Plate 1239)
+from plants which flowered in the greenhouse of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy
+of Hammersmith. The plant has been recorded from the Uitenhage, Graaf
+Reinet and Somerset East Divisions of the Cape Province, but does not
+appear to have been extensively collected. In general habit <i>H.
+albiflos</i> resembles <i>H. natalensis</i> figured in Plate 32, but the leaves
+are thicker and more fleshy.</p>
+
+<p>The species responds well to proper cultivation and has been
+successfully grown at the Division of Botany, Pretoria. It was from
+plants grown at Pretoria that our Plate was prepared.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;<i>Bulb</i> tunicated, 4·5 cm. in diameter; tunics fleshy,
+white becoming green. <i>Leaves</i> 4, contemporary with the flowers, 42 to
+46 cm. long, 10 cm. broad at the widest part, tongue-shaped, obtuse,
+narrowed to the base, with ciliated margins, dark green on the upper
+surface, paler on the lower surface. <i>Peduncle</i> 16 cm. long, 1·3 cm. in
+diameter, erect, compressed, glabrous. <i>Inflorescence</i> a dense umbel,
+2·5 cm. in diameter. <i>Involucral-bracts</i> 5, ascending, white with 6 to 9
+distinct green nerves, short mucronate, ciliated with reflexed hairs.
+<i>Pedicels</i> 4 to 5 mm. long, glabrous. Flowers white. <i>Perianth-tube</i>
+subcylindric, glabrous; segments 1·7 cm. long, linear, obtuse. <i>Stamens</i>
+6; filaments<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span> subulate; anthers versatile. <i>Ovary</i> globose, 3 mm. in
+diameter; style subulate; stigma minutely tricuspidate. (National Herb.,
+Pretoria, No. 2933.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 190.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, whole plant, much reduced; Fig. 2, single
+flower; Fig. 3, involucral bract.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_031.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_032.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_191"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 191.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+CEROPEGIA <span class="smcap">Haygarthii</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Natal, Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Asclepiadaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Ceropegieae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Ceropegia</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. ii. p. 779.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Ceropegia Haygarthii</b>, <i>Schltr. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb.</i> vol. xxxviii. 46, fig. 7 A;<br>
+<i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. v. sect. i. p. 813.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>This beautiful species of <i>Ceropegia</i> is almost unique in the genus on
+account of the peculiar formation of the corolla-lobes. The illustration
+should be compared with those given on Plates 39, 44 and 143, and the
+striking differences will then be seen. It is closely related to <i>C.
+tristis</i>, Hutch. described on Plate 44, but the corolla-lobes are
+produced into a much longer cylindric portion and the calyx-lobes are
+longer.</p>
+
+<p>The specimen from which our illustration was made flowered in the
+greenhouse at the Division of Botany in July 1925, and like the other
+species of the genus always attracts attention owing to the peculiar
+shape of the flowers.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;<i>Stem</i> climbing, fleshy, 3 to 4 mm. thick, glabrous.
+<i>Leaves</i> small, fleshy, flat, 0·6 to 3·5 cm. long, 0·3 to 2·5 cm. broad,
+ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. <i>Cymes</i> 1-2-flowered, lateral at
+the nodes. <i>Peduncles</i> 2 to 4 cm. long, glabrous. <i>Bracts</i> 2 to 4 mm.
+long, subulate. <i>Pedicels</i> 1 to 1·4 cm. long, glabrous. <i>Sepals</i> 1 cm.
+(0·5 cm., <i>Schlechter</i>) long, subulate, glabrous. <i>Corolla</i> abruptly
+bent at a right angle near the base. <i>Tube</i> (following the bend) about
+3·5 cm. long, according to a drawing, or about 2·5 cm. long in dried
+flowers, globosely inflated at the base, cylindric above, enlarging
+(according to a drawing) to about 2 cm. in diam. at the mouth,
+pinkish-white or greenish tinted, spotted with violet, glabrous outside,
+pilose with very fine long hairs within. <i>Lobes</i> free at the base,
+abruptly inflexed over the mouth of the tube and produced beneath into
+broad triangular partition-like green plates or keels, meeting at the<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span>
+centre and connate into a slender erect column 1 to 1·4 cm. long, then
+again becoming free and expanding into elliptic-lanceolate replicate
+segments connate at the tips, forming a small apical ellipsoid cage-like
+body 5 to 6 mm. long, ciliate on the margins, dull purple or
+purple-brown. <i>Corona</i> in the flowers seen much eaten by insects, but
+apparently the outer corona is cupular, with 5 acutely bifid lobes
+rising to the level of the top of the staminal column, ciliate and hairy
+within with long fine hairs. <i>Inner</i> corona-lobes 2 mm. long, linear or
+linear-spathulate, connivent-erect over the staminal column, with very
+revolute tips. (<i>Fl. Cap.</i>&mdash;National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2932.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 191.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, calyx; Fig. 2, ground plan of corolla from
+above; Fig. 3, terminal portion of corolla lobes; Fig. 4, corona.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_130">[Pg 130]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_129">[Pg 129]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_032.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_033.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_131">[Pg 131]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_192"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 192.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+PROTEA <span class="smcap">Harmeri</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Proteaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Proteae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Protea</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 169.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Protea Harmeri</b>, <i>Phillips in Kew Bulletin 1911</i>, p. 83; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. v.<br>
+sect. i. p. 593.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>A comparison of the accompanying Plate should be made with the
+illustration on Plate 108. Both the species figured belong to the same
+section of the genus <i>Protea</i>, all characterised by very narrow leaves.</p>
+
+<p><i>Protea Harmeri</i> was first found by Dr. (now Sir Sydney) Harmer on a
+hill near Matjesfontein when he visited South Africa in 1905; it was
+subsequently collected by Dr. R. Marloth on the Wittebergen and again
+later in the Zwartberg Pass between Oudtshoorn and Prince Albert. The
+specimen figured was collected near the summit of the Zwartberg Pass in
+July 1925. The plant is a bush about 6 ft. high and is extremely
+handsome, as the dark heads show up in strong relief from the
+greyish-green leaves.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;A bush about 1 m. high. <i>Branches</i> greyish tomentellous
+above, becoming glabrous. <i>Leaves</i> 4·5 to 6·5 cm. long, 2·5 to 3·5 mm.
+broad, linear, obtuse to subacute with a callous point attenuated at the
+base, margins recurved; youngest leaves finely villous at the base.
+<i>Head</i> sessile, 2·5 cm. long, about 2·5 cm. in diam., globose;
+receptacle convex. <i>Involucral-bracts</i> 10-11-seriate; outer ovate,
+obtuse, glabrous or the lowest very finely pubescent, with membranous
+ciliate margins; inner oblong-spathulate, obtuse, brick-red, recurved
+above, glabrous or minutely pubescent, not equalling the styles.
+<i>Perianth-sheath</i> 1·5 cm. long, 0·75 mm. broad, dilated above, 3-keeled
+and 3-nerved below, glabrous or hirsute at the apex; lip 4 mm. long,
+3-toothed, rufously setulose, glabrescent on the back; teeth subequal,
+0·25 mm. long, the<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_132">[Pg 132]</a></span> middle one smaller. <i>Stamens</i> all fertile,
+subsessile; anthers linear, 3 mm. long; apical glands 0·25 mm. long,
+ovate, obtuse, swollen on the inner face. <i>Ovary</i> 2 mm. long,
+oblong-obovate in outline, covered with long brown hairs; hypogynous
+scales 1 mm. long, 0·25 to 0·5 mm. broad, oblong, obtuse; style 2 cm.
+long, falcate, arching over the centre of the head, terete above,
+flattened and hollow below, glabrous; stigma 2·25 mm. long, linear,
+obtuse, grooved, passing into the style. (<i>Fl. Cap.</i>&mdash;National Herb.,
+Pretoria, No. 2916.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 192.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, single flower; Fig. 2, posterior perianth lobe;
+Fig. 3, pistil; Fig. 4, receptacle.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_134">[Pg 134]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_133">[Pg 133]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_033.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_034.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_135">[Pg 135]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_193"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 193.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+SUTHERLANDIA <span class="smcap">FRUTESCENS</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province, Orange Free State, Natal, Transvaal.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Leguminosae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Galegeae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Sutherlandia</span>, <i>R.Br.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. i. p. 503.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Sutherlandia frutescens</b>, <i>R.Br. Hort. Kew</i>. ed. 2, p. 327; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. ii.<br>
+p. 212.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>This plant was named by the great English botanist in honour of James
+Sutherland, one of the earliest superintendents of the Edinburgh Botanic
+Gardens. The genus has only one species, which is widely distributed
+throughout South Africa, and is probably the most handsome native plant
+in the family <i>Leguminosae</i>. According to the <i>Botanical Magazine</i>, in
+which the plant was figured (Plate 181), <i>Sutherlandia frutescens</i> was
+known in cultivation as early as 1683, and later became generally known
+in European gardens.</p>
+
+<p><i>Sutherlandia frutescens</i> forms a small bush, but may grow to 3-4 ft.
+high, and is found usually in fairly dry places. It is known under
+several local names, but probably the most common is “Kanker bos”
+(cancer-bush), as it is reputed to be a cure for cancer.</p>
+
+<p>As the plant is easily raised from seed, and the flowers are
+particularly beautiful, it should be more generally cultivated.</p>
+
+<p>We are indebted to Mr. C. A. Smith, B.Sc., for the specimens which he
+collected at Fauresmith in the Orange Free State.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;A shrub. <i>Branches</i> pubescent, at length becoming
+glabrous. <i>Leaves</i> 6 to 9 cm. long, imparipinnate; leaflets alternate or
+opposite, 1 to 2 cm. long, 3 to 6 mm. broad, lanceolate or oblong,
+obtuse, thinly pubescent. <i>Inflorescence</i> an axillary raceme, peduncle
+and pedicels covered with short stiff sparse hairs. <i>Floral-bracts</i> 3
+mm. long, oblong. <i>Pedicels</i> 1·2 cm. long. <i>Calyx-tube</i> 1 cm. long,
+deeply cam<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_136">[Pg 136]</a></span>panulate; lobes 4·5 mm. long, ovate, acuminate. <i>Vexillum</i> 3
+cm. long, 1·2 cm. broad, obovate, acuminate; alae 8 mm. long, 1·5 mm.
+broad, oblong, obliquely clawed; keel 3·5 cm. long, 8 mm. broad, more or
+less oblong, with a linear claw 1·2 cm. long. <i>Stamens</i> diadelphous;
+filaments filiform. <i>Ovary</i> stalked, 1·5 cm. long, linear, with many
+ovules; style 1·5 cm. long, bearded on the inner face. <i>Pod</i> membranous,
+inflated. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2943.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 193.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_138">[Pg 138]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_137">[Pg 137]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_034.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_035.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_194"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 194.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+ORNITHOGALUM <span class="smcap">ODORATISSIMUM</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Liliaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Scilleae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Ornithogalum</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 815.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Ornithogalum odoratissimum</b> <i>C. A. Smith</i>, sp. nov. <i>Bulbus</i> ovoideo-globosus,<br>
+2 cm. diam., tunicis brunneis membranaceis. <i>Folia</i> 2-6, 6-10<br>
+cm. longa, anguste linearia, basi leviter dilatata, glabra. <i>Pedunculus</i><br>
+ad 14 cm. longus, cylindricus, glaber. <i>Inflorescentia</i> ad 6 cm. longa,<br>
+pauci-vel multiflora. <i>Bracteae</i> 1-1·8 cm. longae, ovato-acuminatae,<br>
+membranaceae. <i>Pedicelli</i> 0·5-1 cm. longi, teretes. <i>Segmenta perianthii</i><br>
+1·5 cm. longa, oblonga, apice inflexa pubescentia obtusa. <i>Filamenta</i><br>
+0·5-1 cm. longa, basi 2 mm. lata; antherae oblongae. <i>Ovarium</i> 5 mm.<br>
+longum, sessile. <i>Stylus</i> 1·5 cm. longus, teres, apice minute capitatus,<br>
+penicillatus. <i>Fructus</i> trigonus.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>This Plate should be compared with that of <i>O. Roodeae</i> figured on Plate
+75, as the two species are no doubt closely related though differing
+much in the colour of the flowers and the shape of the leaves. Like <i>O.
+Roodeae</i> the flowers are very sweet-scented, a character not usually met
+with in the genus, and a single inflorescence is sufficient to saturate
+a large room with a pleasant scent, and even when planted out in the
+garden the strong perfume is noticeable for a considerable distance from
+the plant. The plant has been compared with Jacquin’s figure of <i>O.
+suaveolens</i>, from which it differs in being much smaller, and as it has
+been figured it was thought better to describe it than to definitely
+state that it is <i>O. suaveolens</i>.</p>
+
+<p>We are indebted to Mrs. E. Rood of van Rhynsdorp for the specimens.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;A simple erect herb. <i>Bulb</i> 2 cm. in diameter, 2·5 cm.
+high, ovoid, with brown tunics. <i>Leaves</i> 2 to 6, 6 to 10 cm. long, 2 to
+3 cm. broad at the base, linear to linear-lanceolate, deeply channelled,
+glabrous. <i>Peduncle</i> up to 14 cm. long, terete, glabrous. <i>Raceme</i> few
+to many-<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span>flowered, up to 6 cm. long. <i>Bracts</i> 1 to 1·8 cm. long,
+ovate-acuminate, membranous, dry, partly sheathing the pedicels.
+<i>Pedicels</i> 0·5 to 1 cm. long, cylindric, erect-spreading.
+<i>Perianth-segments</i> 1·5 cm. long, oblong, inflexed obtuse and pubescent
+at the apex, white with a broad green 3-nerved band. <i>Stamens</i> slightly
+shorter than the perianth-segments; filaments 2 mm. broad at the base;
+anthers 2 mm. long, oblong, versatile. <i>Ovary</i> 5 mm. long, sessile;
+style subequalling the perianth-segments, sub-capitate and penicillate
+at the apex. <i>Fruit</i> (immature) deeply and bluntly 3-lobed. (National
+Herb., Pretoria, No. 2941.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 194.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2,
+cross-section of ovary.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_141">[Pg 141]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_035.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_036.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_195"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 195.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+ATHRIXIA <span class="smcap">ELATA</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Basutoland, Cape Province, Natal, O.F.S., Transvaal.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Compositae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Inuloideae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Athrixia</span>, <i>Ker.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant</i>, vol. ii. p. 328.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Athrixia elata</b>, <i>Sond. in Linn.</i> vol. xxiii. p. 67; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. iii. p. 292.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>The plant figured on the accompanying Plate is a much-branched shrub
+almost 1 m. high, and may be found in flower on the hills surrounding
+Pretoria during the month of August. It grows in masses in certain
+localities and flowers very profusely; if brought under cultivation it
+could no doubt be much improved so as to make it a desirable garden
+plant.</p>
+
+<p><i>Athrixia elata</i> is found on the Drakensberg in Natal, in Basutoland,
+the eastern Free State and on the spurs of the Drakensberg in the
+northern Transvaal, but extends westwards in the Transvaal as far as
+Rustenburg. The travellers Burke and Zeyher collected specimens almost
+100 years ago on the Magaliesberg, and Cooper also came across the plant
+in his journey through Basutoland in 1861.</p>
+
+<p>We are indebted to Mr. C. A. Smith, B.Sc., for the specimens from which
+our Plate was prepared.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;A much-branched shrub. <i>Leaves</i> alternate, sessile, 0·5 to
+2·5 cm. long, linear, acute, pungent, with revolute margins, glabrous
+above, woolly beneath. <i>Heads</i> subsessile, solitary, terminal, 2·5 to 3
+cm. in diameter (including the rays). <i>Involucral-bracts</i> in many rows,
+unequal; the outer gradually shorter, recurved, aristate, 3 to 4 mm.
+long, 1 mm. broad, narrowly ovate with the apices edged with brown to
+black, woolly; inner 5 to 6 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, linear-oblong;
+innermost 7 to 8·5 mm. long, 0·5 to 1 mm. broad, narrow-linear to
+oblong-elliptic, with membranous margins. <i>Receptacle</i> flat, nude,
+honeycombed with the margins of the cells evident. <i>Ray-florets</i> female;
+tube 4 to 5 mm. long,<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_144">[Pg 144]</a></span> cylindric, widening above, glabrous; lamina
+oblong-elliptic. <i>Ovary</i> terete, pilose; style cylindric, glabrous,
+deeply 2-cleft. <i>Disc-florets</i> hermaphrodite, fertile. <i>Corolla</i> 6 mm.
+long, tubular, cylindric below, then articulated and the uppermost
+one-third slightly wider, glabrous. <i>Anthers</i> tailed at the base, with
+an ovate obtuse apical appendage. <i>Ovary</i> pilose; style cylindric,
+glabrous, deeply 2-cleft; branches 1 mm. long, linear, truncate,
+penicillate. <i>Pappus-bristles</i> equalling the corolla-tube, rigid,
+persistent, subplumose in the uppermost one-third, alternating with
+minute serrulate scales. (National Herb., Pretoria, 2942.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 195.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, diagrammatic longitudinal section of head; Fig.
+2, ray-floret; Fig. 3, disc-floret; Fig. 4, involucral-bract; Fig.
+5, pappus enlarged; Fig. 6, pappus-bristle; Fig. 7, fimbriated
+pappus-scale.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_146">[Pg 146]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_145">[Pg 145]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_036.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_037.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_196"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 196.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+SUTERA <span class="smcap">Burkeana</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Transvaal, Zululand.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Scrophulariaceae</span>. Tribe <i>Manuleae</i>.<br>
+<br>
+SUTERA, <i>Roth.</i> (including <i>Lyperia</i>, Benth.); <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i><br>
+vol. ii. p. 945.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Sutera Burkeana</b>, <i>Hiern. Fl. Cap.</i> vol. iv. sect. ii. p. 299.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>The <i>Sutera Burkeana</i> here figured for the first time is a common plant
+in some localities around Pretoria and is to be found in flower from the
+beginning of August onwards. It is a bush up to 2-1/2 ft. high and
+appears to be very localised in its distribution, as only isolated
+patches are met with on the hills surrounding Pretoria. It has also been
+recorded from the neighbourhood of Johannesburg and from Zululand.</p>
+
+<p>The plant flowers profusely, and when in full bloom makes a fine display
+and would no doubt be improved under proper cultivation.</p>
+
+<p>Our Plate was prepared from specimens collected by Mr. C. A. Smith near
+Pretoria.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;A much-branched shrub ·3 to 1·3 m. high. <i>Branches</i>
+glandular-puberulous. <i>Leaves</i> fascicled recurved 3 to 8 mm. long,
+linear to oblong, cuneate at the base, acute, toothed, punctate.
+<i>Flowers</i> arranged racemosely at the ends of the branches. <i>Pedicels</i> 7
+mm. long, terete, rigid, viscid-puberulous. <i>Calyx</i> 3 to 4 mm. long,
+deeply 5-lobed; lobes lanceolate-linear or oblong-lanceolate, acute,
+glandular-hairy. <i>Corolla-tube</i> cylindric, somewhat swollen and twice
+curved above, glandular-hairy without, softly hairy in the throat; lobes
+broadly obovate, obtuse, entire, often curled or recurved,
+glandular-hairy outside. <i>Stamens</i> 4, hardly exserted; filaments
+filiform, inserted on the corolla-tube. <i>Anthers</i> 1-thecous, all
+perfect. <i>Ovary</i> 2-chambered with numerous ovules; style subulate,
+included; stigma obtuse. <i>Fruit</i> a capsule; valves<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_148">[Pg 148]</a></span> cleft at the apex.
+<i>Seeds</i> numerous, regose. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2937.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 196.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2, pistil;
+Fig. 3, cross-section of ovary.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_150">[Pg 150]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_149">[Pg 149]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_037.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_038.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_151">[Pg 151]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_197"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 197.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+EUPHORBIA <span class="smcap">TRIDENTATA</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Euphorbiaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Euphorbieae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Euphorbia</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. iii. p. 258.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Euphorbia tridentata</b>, <i>Lam. Encycl.</i> ii. 416; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. v. sect. ii. p. 298.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>The species of <i>Euphorbia</i> figured on the accompanying Plate is a
+somewhat rare plant and until quite recently it was not known where the
+plant was found, although it was known in European gardens and figured
+almost 100 years ago. The plant belongs to a small group of three
+species in the genus characterised by having the branches constricted at
+their origin of growth. All of them are very dwarf plants.</p>
+
+<p>We are indebted to Mr. H. M. Bartlett of Riversdale for the specimens
+which he sent in July 1924, and these were successfully grown at the
+Division of Botany, Pretoria, and flowered in September 1925.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;Plant dwarf, succulent, spineless, branching from the
+base. <i>Branches</i> ascending or somewhat spreading, 2·5 to 15 cm. long, 1
+to 1·4 cm. thick, cylindric or slightly tapering upwards, tessellately
+tuberculate with hexagonal flattish tubercles 6 to 10 mm. in diam.,
+having a slightly prominent whitish leaf-scar, glabrous, dull green.
+<i>Leaves</i> sessile, soon deciduous, 4 to 6 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. broad,
+elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute, dark green, with a reddish minutely
+toothed margin. <i>Peduncles</i> 3 to 4 at the ends of the branches, about 4
+mm. long, bearing a pair of ovate or elliptic bracts and 1 involucre,
+glabrous. <i>Involucre</i> about 1·3 to 1·8 cm. in diam., cup-shaped,
+glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 transversely oblong, toothed and ciliate,
+inflexed, purplish lobes. <i>Glands</i> subcontiguous, about 5 mm. in diam.
+across the tips, very concave at the basal part, divided into 3 to 4
+spreading finger-like corrugated white processes 2 to 3 mm. long.
+<i>Ovary</i> pedicellate, scarcely exserted, with styles<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_152">[Pg 152]</a></span> 7 mm. long, united
+for two-thirds of their length, with entire spreading tips. (National
+Herb., Pretoria, No. 2989.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate</span> 197.&mdash;Fig. 1, inflorescence; Fig. 2, gland with lobes.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_154">[Pg 154]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_153">[Pg 153]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_038.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_039.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_155">[Pg 155]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_198"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 198.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+VENIDIUM <span class="smcap">Wyleyi</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Little Namaqualand.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Compositae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Arctotideae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Venidium</span>, <i>Less.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant</i>, vol. ii. p. 459.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Venidium Wyley</b>i, <i>Harv. Fl. Cap.</i> vol. iii. p. 463.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>This Plate, and that on Plate 117, should be compared with <i>Arctotis
+Fosteri</i> which we figured on Plate 3, when the difference between the
+genera <i>Venidium</i> and <i>Arctotis</i> will be seen. In the former genus the
+fruits are without a pappus or with a very rudimentary one, while in the
+latter genus a well-developed pappus is always present.</p>
+
+<p>The plant is commonly known as the “Namaqua Daisy,” and in its native
+home the flower-heads attain a very large size when the season is
+favourable, but may be quite small when no rain has fallen. <i>Venidium
+Wyleyi</i> does quite well under cultivation, and is easily grown and forms
+a very effective border.</p>
+
+<p>We are indebted to Mr. L. R. Vogt of Waterkloof near Pretoria for the
+specimens, which were grown in his garden.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;An erect herb. <i>Stems</i> terete, hollow, striate,
+pilose-hoary, laxly leafy. <i>Cauline leaves</i> 1·2 to 15 cm. long, sessile;
+the lower lyrato-pinnatifid, amply auricled, amplexicaul, on both sides
+cobwebby-tomentose; the upper broadly ovate, closely crowded in the
+young stems, cobwebby-tomentose, obtuse, with the margins entire or
+remotely 1 to 2 toothed. <i>Heads</i> peduncled, terminal, very large and
+showy, 8 cm. in diam. (including the rays), the buds very hoary.
+<i>Involucral bracts</i> imbricate, in several rows; the outer narrower,
+reflexed, herbaceous, green; the innermost row much longer, broadly
+scariose, spreading below the rays; the whole involucre densely
+cobwebby. <i>Receptacle</i> 1·8 cm. in diam., convex, deeply honeycombed,
+with the margins of the cells produced into a few bristles.
+<i>Ray-florets</i> female, 1-seriate, alternate<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_156">[Pg 156]</a></span> rays spreading, others at
+first ascending, then spreading, giving an appearance of two rows.
+<i>Corolla</i> ligulate; lamina bright orange coloured, oblong-cuneate, very
+faintly 3-toothed at apex, of lower whorl smaller (2·5 cm. long) and
+with a smaller brow-black blotch at the base than that of upper whorl (3
+cm. long); tube 3 mm. long, broader at base than at the top,
+subglabrous. <i>Ovary</i> obovate in outline, muricated, glabrous; style 4
+mm. long, cylindric, glabrous; stigmatic portion wider, with the
+branches 0·5 mm. long, linear, flat, spreading. <i>Disc-florets</i>
+hermaphrodite, fertile, numerous, crowded on the head. <i>Corolla</i> 4 mm.
+long, subcylindric, 5-cleft at the apex for about a quarter the length
+of the tube, with 5 longitudinal rows of glandular hairs; lobes
+blackish, 1 mm. long, linear, subacute, with the angles between the
+lobes obtuse. <i>Anthers</i> purplish, black, 2 mm. long, obtuse, with a
+small suborbicular apical appendage; filaments 1·5 mm. long, linear,
+flat, at length filiform, inserted on lower half of corolla tube.
+<i>Ovary</i> obovate in outline, white, muricated, glabrous; style 5·5 mm.
+long, at first narrowly cylindric, then in upper half abruptly widening
+into a yellow stigmatic portion, 2 mm. long, slightly cleft at the apex,
+becoming much exserted. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2944.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 198.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, longitudinal section of receptacle; Fig. 2,
+ray-floret; Fig. 3, disc-floret; Fig. 4, inner involucral-bract;
+Fig. 5, outer involucral-bract; Fig. 6, achene.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1923.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_158">[Pg 158]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_157">[Pg 157]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_039.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_039.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_159">[Pg 159]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_199"></a><span class="smcap">Plate 199.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+ERICA <span class="smcap">BLENNA</span> var. <span class="smcap">GRANDIFLORA</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Ericaceae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Ericeae.</span><br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Erica</span>, <i>Linn.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. ii. p. 590.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Erica blenna</b>, <i>Salisb.</i> var. <b>grandiflora</b>, <i>Bolus. Fl. Cap.</i> vol. iv. sect. i.<br>
+p. 202.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>Through the courtesy of Dr. J. Muir of Riversdale we are able to figure
+for the first time a species of heath, and perhaps one of the most
+beautiful of all the Cape heaths. The variety <i>grandiflora</i> is only
+found as far as we know in the Riversdale and Bredasdorp Districts and
+is by no means a common plant. It is known locally as the “lantern” or
+“Riversdale” heath. The species itself, like so many of the South
+African species of <i>Erica</i>, was first collected by Masson about the year
+1772, and was successfully cultivated in Europe and figured on more than
+one occasion in early botanical literature.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;Erect, 0·3 to 0·5 m. high. <i>Branches</i> stout, ascending,
+virgate or flexuous, puberulous or glabrous. <i>Leaves</i> 3-nate, mostly
+erect and imbricate or subspreading, linear, subobtuse, flat above,
+keeled and sulcate beneath, glabrous, 8 to 10 mm. long. <i>Flowers</i>
+usually solitary, rarely in pairs (“here and there sublateral,”
+Bentham). <i>Pedicels</i> about 8 mm. long; bracts remote, lanceolate, about
+6 mm. long; sepals ovate, acuminate, keel-tipped, thickish, subscarious,
+viscid, coloured or greenish, about 5 mm. long. <i>Corolla</i> conical-ovoid
+or suburceolate-conical, much contracted to the mouth but only slightly
+constricted at the throat, very viscid, 1·6 to 2 cm. long, bright
+orange-red, the limb and some distance below it green; segments
+spreading or erect, about one-eighth the length of the tube; filaments
+broad at the base tapering upwards, bent below the anther; anthers
+included, dorsifixed well above the base, cuneate, subacute,
+scaberulous, ciliolate, about 3 mm. long, crested; pore three-fifths to
+two-thirds the length of the cell; crests quite free<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_160">[Pg 160]</a></span> from the filament,
+subsemiorbicular in outline, deeply inciso-lacerate, about half the
+length of the cell; style included, straight; stigma capitellate; ovary
+glabrous. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2991.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 199.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, pedicel showing bracts; Fig. 2, androecium and
+gynaecium; Fig. 3, single stamen; Fig. 4, pistil; Fig. 5, anther
+enlarged.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_162">[Pg 162]</a></span></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_161">[Pg 161]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/ill_040.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_040.jpg"
+height="550" alt=""></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_163">[Pg 163]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="Plate_200"></a><span class="smcap">PLATE 200.</span></h2>
+
+<p class="c">
+DIMORPHOTHECA <span class="smcap">CUNEATA</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<i>Cape Province, Natal, Orange Free State.</i><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Compositae.</span> Tribe <span class="smcap">Calenduleae</span>.<br>
+<br>
+<span class="smcap">Dimorphotheca</span>, <i>Moench.</i>; <i>Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.</i> vol. ii. p. 453.<br>
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p class="c"><b>Dimorphotheca cuneata</b>, <i>Less. Syn.</i> 257; <i>Fl. Cap.</i> vol. iii. p. 422.<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>We are indebted for the specimens, from which the accompanying Plate was
+prepared, to Mr. C. A. Smith, B.Sc., who collected them in September
+1925 on the botanical reserve near Fauresmith, Orange Free State.
+According to Mr. Smith the plants cover the hill-sides and from a
+distance appear as large white patches. It flowers very profusely, so
+much so that the leaves are almost hidden by the mass of flowers. The
+laminae of the ray-florets are white above and copper-coloured beneath,
+not yellow as described in the <i>Flora Capensis</i>.</p>
+
+<p>The specimens collected by Mr. Smith are an exact match with those
+collected by Zeyher (No. 2812). Zeyher No. 3066, quoted by Harvey as <i>D.
+cuneata</i>, is quite a different plant, perhaps a <i>Tripteris</i>. We have
+accepted the specific name “cuneata,” as this was the name given by Mr.
+N. E. Brown to a specimen collected by Mr. E. E. Galpin. Locally known
+as “mak-bietou.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Description</span>:&mdash;A densely and closely branched bushy shrub up to 1·05 m.
+high, the older branches naked, rough, the younger short and closely
+leafy. <i>Leaves</i> varying in shape (linear to obovate) and size (0·5 to
+1·3 cm. long), always cuneate at the base, sharply 2 to 4 toothed,
+obscurely mid-ribbed, gland-dotted, subdecurrent, glabrous or nearly so.
+<i>Peduncles</i> terminal, 2 to 3·5 cm. long, glandular-pubescent,
+viscidulous, becoming widened at the top. <i>Involucre</i> uni-seriate,
+glaucescent, viscidulous; scales linear-acuminate, minutely
+glandular-puberulous, with pale-edged and ciliate<span class="pagenum"><a id="page_164">[Pg 164]</a></span> margins. <i>Receptacle</i>
+about 3·5 mm. in diam., nude, flat. Ray-florets female, uniseriate.
+<i>Corolla</i> ligulate, white above, yellow to bronze-coppery below; lamina
+spreading, finely-three toothed, cuneate at the base; tube of corolla
+1·5 mm. long, terete, glandular-hairy. <i>Ovary</i> triquetrous, green,
+obconic, somewhat curved, glandular hairy with stalked glands, with the
+angular margins bluntly toothed; style 4·5 mm. long, cylindric,
+glabrous; branches 2 mm. long, yellow, flat, subacute. <i>Disc-florets</i>
+hermaphrodite, fertile. <i>Corolla-tube</i> yellow, 3 mm. long, subcylindric,
+with a 5-fid limb, very densely glandular-hairy at the base, glabrous
+above. <i>Anthers</i> 3 mm. long, subsagittate at the base, with an ovate
+obtuse apical appendage. <i>Ovary</i> very much laterally compressed,
+obcordate, glandular, with a wide thick-rimmed entire marginal wing;
+style 6 mm. long, cylindric, glabrous; branches appearing truncate with
+a ring of bristles, capped by a short conical apex. (National Herb.,
+Pretoria, No. 2990.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 200.</span>&mdash;Fig. 1, ray-floret; Fig. 2, ray-achene; Fig. 3,
+disc-floret; Fig. 4, disc-achene; Fig. 5, stamen.</p>
+
+<p>F.P.S.A., 1925.</p></div><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_165">[Pg 165]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="INDEX_TO_VOLUME_V"></a>INDEX TO VOLUME V.</h2>
+
+<table>
+<tr><td>&#160;</td><td><small>PLATE</small></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_187">Aloe arborescens <i>var.</i> <small>FRUTESCENS</small>,</a></td>
+<td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_187">187</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_164">Aloe Chabaudii,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_164">164</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_169">Aloe ferox,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_169">169</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_171">Aloe Marlothii,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_171">171</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_178">Aloe rupestris,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_178">178</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_180">Aloe sessiliflora,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_180">180</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_195">Athrixia elata,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_195">195</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_191">Ceropegia Haygarthii,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_191">191</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_161">Cotyledon orbiculata,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_161">161</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_173">Crassula columnaris,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_173">173</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_189">Crassula laticephala,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_189">189</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_167">Crassula rosularis,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_167">167</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_188">Dermatobotrys Saundersii,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_188">188</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_200">Dimorphotheca cuneata,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_200">200</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_199">Erica blenna <i>var.</i> <small>GRANDIFLORA</small>,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_199">199</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_197">Euphorbia tridentata,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_197">197</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_183">Gazania suffruticosa,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_183">183</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_182">Gladiolus cruentus,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_182">182</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_165">Gladiolus orchidiflorus,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_165">165</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_163">Gladiolus trichostachys,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_163">163</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_175">Gladiolus tristis,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_175">175</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_190">Haemanthus albiflos,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_190">190</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_172">Hypoxis Rooperi,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_172">172</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_184">Lachenalia rubida <i>var.</i> <small>TIGRINA</small>,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_184">184</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_166">Lachenalia tricolor,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_166">166</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_170">Leucadendron humifusum,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_170">170</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_168">Lissochilus speciosus,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_168">168</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_194">Ornithogalum odoratissimum,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_194">194</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_192">Protea Harmeri,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_192">192</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_185">Protea Mundii,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_185">185</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_177">Protea pityphylla,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_177">177</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_176">Sarcophyte sanguinea,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_176">176</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_179">Senecio fulgens,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_179">179</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_174">Senecio tamoides,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_174">174</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_181">Stapelia gigantea <i>var.</i> <small>PALLIDA</small>,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_181">181</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_186">Strelitzia Reginae,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_186">186</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_196">Sutera Burkeana,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_196">196</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_193">Sutherlandia frutescens,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_193">193</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_162">Synnotia bicolor,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_162">162</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_198">Venidium Wyleyi,</a></td><td class="rt"><a href="#Plate_198">198</a></td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr>
+
+<hr class="full">
+<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 76601 ***</div>
+</body>
+</html>
+
diff --git a/76601-h/images/cover.jpg b/76601-h/images/cover.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d75ddf9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/cover.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_001.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_001.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e9f57a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_001.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_002.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_002.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..44f5673
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_002.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_003.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_003.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..231108f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_003.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_004.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_004.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..08228af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_004.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_005.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_005.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ffca117
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_005.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_006.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_006.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b6d0a0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_006.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_007.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_007.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3540d2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_007.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_008.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_008.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bca67f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_008.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_009.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_009.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..79c8393
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_009.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_010.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_010.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..97b1376
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_010.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_011.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_011.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ae7116
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_011.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_012.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_012.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..40d28e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_012.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_013.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_013.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b10ac3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_013.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_014.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_014.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fc9696a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_014.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_015.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_015.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a16c880
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_015.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_016.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_016.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d0643e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_016.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_017.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_017.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1ced0d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_017.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_018.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_018.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4cf7792
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_018.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_019.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_019.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3bd1767
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_019.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_020.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_020.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b804941
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_020.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_021.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_021.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c642a2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_021.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_022.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_022.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a3d99b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_022.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_023.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_023.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3403af0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_023.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_024.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_024.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b7f5dd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_024.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_025.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_025.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e38f36a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_025.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_026.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_026.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2b64be9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_026.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_027.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_027.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ce5d73d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_027.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_028.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_028.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..adc1b66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_028.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_029.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_029.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc0f271
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_029.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_030.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_030.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..49f2150
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_030.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_031.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_031.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c6d09fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_031.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_032.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_032.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f9adcbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_032.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_033.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_033.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e56fbdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_033.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_034.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_034.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..28d3010
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_034.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_035.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_035.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d270504
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_035.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_036.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_036.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..587cd46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_036.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_037.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_037.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a858ed2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_037.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_038.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_038.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..63bf25f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_038.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_039.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_039.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f841b23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_039.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/ill_040.jpg b/76601-h/images/ill_040.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..88bd482
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/ill_040.jpg
diff --git a/76601-h/images/title.jpg b/76601-h/images/title.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..223f7ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/76601-h/images/title.jpg
diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6312041
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+This eBook, including all associated images, markup, improvements,
+metadata, and any other content or labor, has been confirmed to be
+in the PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE UNITED STATES.
+
+Procedures for determining public domain status are described in
+the "Copyright How-To" at https://www.gutenberg.org.
+
+No investigation has been made concerning possible copyrights in
+jurisdictions other than the United States. Anyone seeking to utilize
+this eBook outside of the United States should confirm copyright
+status under the laws that apply to them.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6885fee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org) public repository for eBook #76601
+(https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76601)