According to the Kew authorities, in the whole of the large Natural Order _Cruciferae_, embracing about 180 genera, only two are recorded as having scandent species. They are the South African _Heliophila_ and the Peruvian _Cremolobus_, and the scandent habit is exceptional in these two genera. The plant may be found in shady places amongst shrubs along the coast near Durban and also at Inanda. The present plate was prepared from specimens gathered near Durban in July, 1914. The species is popularly known as the “Bridal Wreath.” DESCRIPTION:--A climbing plant. _Stem_ brown; branches green, terete, glabrous. _Leaves_ 2·5-5 cm. long, 1·2-2·5 cm. broad, oblong to lanceolate, tapering at both ends, obtuse or acute, gradually passing into a thickened, channelled and usually recurved petiole, glabrous. _Flowers_ in axillary and terminal racemes; pedicels 1·2-2·5 cm. long. _Sepals_ oblong, obtuse; the two lateral ones with thickened dorsal wings. _Petals_ 0·8-1·2 cm. long, obovate-spathulate. _Long stamens_ half as long as the petals; short stamens 4 mm. long; anthers ovate. _Ovary_ globose; style short; stigma capitate. _Fruit_ 4-5 cm. long, elliptic-oblong, flat, tipped by a short straight style, 1-2-seeded. * * * * * PLATE 48.--Fig. 1, portion of plant, nat. size; Fig. 2, flower; Figs. 3, 4, and 5, stamens; Fig. 6, petal; Fig. 7, gynaecium; Fig. 8, fruit. All enlarged with the exception of Fig. 1. F.P.S.A., 1922. [Illustration: _49_ K. A. Lansdell del.] PLATE 49. HOLMSKIOLDIA SPECIOSA. _Transvaal._ * * * * * VERBENACEAE. Tribe VITICEAE. HOLMSKIOLDIA, _Retz._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. ii. p. 1156. * * * * * =Holmskioldia speciosa=, _Hutchinson et Corbishley in Kew Bull._ 1920, p. 332, Fig. 1. * * * * * This beautiful and showy plant was first collected by Dr. I. B. Pole Evans at Komati Poort in November, 1917, and specimens sent to Kew were reported to be an undescribed species of the genus. Sir Wm. Hoy, the General Manager of the South African Railways, presented two living specimens to the Division of Botany, Pretoria, and our plate was prepared from these plants when they flowered. The plant is a large bush 10-20 ft. high, and when in full bloom is one of the most conspicuous objects in the veld. The calyx in this species very soon becomes almost fully developed, and the young corolla is at first only visible as a minute ball at the base of the saucer-shaped calyx.