_Holmskioldia_ is a small genus with a curious distribution. A handsome species, _H. sanguinea_, Retz, occurs in the foothills of the Himalaya mountains of India at an altitude of 3000-5000 ft. _H. tettensis_, _H. spinescens_, and _H. mucronata_, Vatke, are found in the basin of the Lower Zambesi and Shire Rivers, and there is an unnamed species in Madagascar. The genus is very closely related to _Clerodendron_, largely represented in all these areas. DESCRIPTION:--_Branchlets_ woody, terete, shortly and softly pubescent, marked with pale lenticels; internodes about 2 cm. long. _Leaves_ broadly ovate, triangular at the apex, broadly wedge-shaped at the base, 2·5-4 cm. long, 2-3 cm. broad, coarsely crenate, with few (about three) rounded teeth, very shortly setulose above, paler below and conspicuously glandular and shortly pubescent; lateral nerves about three on each side of the midrib; petiole 7 mm. long, densely pubescent. _Flowers_ few, arranged in axillary cymes about 4 cm. long; peduncles slender, softly pubescent; lower bracts more or less leafy, spathulate-obovate, up to 7 mm. long; pedicels up to 1·2 cm. long, with two small opposite linear bracteoles above the middle. _Calyx_ pink-coloured, gradually enlarging, broadly top-shaped, glandular-pubescent outside; tube 1 cm. long, with broadly rounded lobes, the latter rigidly membranous in the fruiting stage and expanding to 2·5 cm. _Corolla_ purple, 2-2·5 cm. long, glandular and softly pubescent outside; tube up to 1·5 cm. long. _Stamens_ long exserted; filaments glabrous. _Ovary_ hairy in the upper part; style a little longer than the stamens, slender, glabrous. _Fruit_ truncate, 4-horned, included by the accrescent calyx.--J. HUTCHINSON. * * * * * PLATE 49.--Fig. 1, calyx; Fig. 2, corolla bud; Fig. 3, stamen; Fig. 4, pistil; Fig. 5, young fruit. F.P.S.A., 1922. [Illustration: _50_ K. A. Lansdell del.] PLATE 50. RHAMPHICARPA TUBULOSA. _Cape Province, Natal, Transvaal._ * * * * * SCROPHULARIACEAE. Tribe GERARDIEAE. RHAMPHICARPA, _Benth._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. ii. p. 969. =Rhamphicarpa tubulosa=, _Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag._ i. 368; _Harv. Thes. Cap._ i. 36, t. 57; _Fl. Cap._ vol. iv. sect. 2, p. 399. * * * * * This species belongs to a small genus of plants which are probably parasitic or semi-parasitic herbs. Three species are known in South Africa, and a few from Tropical Africa, East India, and Australia. _R. tubulosa_ also occurs in Tropical, and is the most widely distributed member of the genus in South Africa. In Natal it is always found in moist ground, edges of pools, and similar habitats. The plate was prepared from plants collected by the late Dr. Medley Wood on the Berea Flats near Durban, Natal.