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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 & 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>  </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span>  </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>  </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span>  </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span>  </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span>  </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>:—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>—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>:—<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>—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>:—<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>—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>:—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>—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>:—<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>—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>  </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span>  </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>:—<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>—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>:—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>—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>:—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>—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>:—<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>—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>:—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>—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>:—<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>—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>:—<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>—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>:—<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>—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>:—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>—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>:—<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>—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>:—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>—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>:—<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>—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>:—<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>—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>:—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>—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>:—<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>—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:—<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>—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>:—<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>—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>:—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>—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>:—<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>—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>:—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>—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>:—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>—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>:—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>—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>:—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>—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>:—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>—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>:—<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>—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>:—<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>—National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2932.)</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 191.</span>—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>:—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>—National Herb., +Pretoria, No. 2916.)</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Plate 192.</span>—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>:—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>—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>:—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>—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>:—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>—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>:—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>—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>:—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.—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>:—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>—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>:—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>—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>:—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>—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> </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> + |