DESCRIPTION:--A herbaceous plant 12-60 cm. high. _Stem_ erect; simple or occasionally sparsely branched, terete, sometimes furrowed on two sides, glabrous or nearly so. _Leaves_ opposite or subopposite, exstipulate, sessile or nearly so, 2·6-7·5 cm. long, up to 1·2 cm. broad, linear, slightly narrowed at both ends, with entire margins and a prominent midrib, glabrous. _Inflorescence_ a few-flowered raceme; pedicels 1·5-2·5 cm. long. _Calyx-tube_ 1·2 cm. long; lobes spreading, lanceolate, a little shorter than the tube, keeled. _Corolla-tube_ about 2 cm. long, narrowly subcylindric, more or less curved, glabrous or minutely puberulous; lobes 1·5 cm. long, 0·8 cm. broad, obovate, rounded, the upper 2 connate high up. _Stamens_ 4, in 2 pairs; filaments clothed with long hairs, the upper pair shorter than the lower pair; anthers 1-celled, oblong, dorsifixed. _Ovary_ oblong-ovoid; style terete; stigma thickened. _Capsule_ 1·2 cm. long, 8 mm. in diameter, obliquely ovoid, obliquely beaked at the apex, glabrous. * * * * * PLATE 50.--Fig. 1, plant, natural size; Fig. 2, corolla, front view; Fig. 3, corolla, back view; Fig. 4, stamens; Fig. 5, corolla laid open; Fig. 6, gynaecium; Fig. 7, cross-section of ovary; Fig. 8, calyx; Fig. 9, capsule. All enlarged except Fig. 1. F.P.S.A., 1922. [Illustration: _51_ S. Gower del.] PLATE 51. GAZANIA SUBULATA. _Cape Province._ * * * * * COMPOSITAE. Tribe ARCTOTIDEAE. GAZANIA, _Gaertn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. ii. p. 459. =Gazania subulata=, _R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew._ ed. II. vol. v. p. 140; _Fl. Cap._ vol. iii. p. 473. * * * * * The native species of _Gazania_ receive perhaps more attention from gardeners than other groups of South African _Compositae_. This is due to their easy cultivation and the brightness of their “flowers.” The general names “Gousblom” and “Marigolds” are applied indiscriminately to various species of _Gazania_, _Arctotis_ and _Dimorphotheca_. Our plate was prepared from plants flowering at the Division of Botany, Pretoria. The plant is acquiescent and forms a compact clump about 2 feet in diameter. It flowers freely and is easily propagated. We hope in future numbers to illustrate all the better known kinds of “Gousblom,” especially some of the beautiful Namaqualand species. Our specimen bears out Harvey’s statement that this species and _G. longiscapa_ are scarcely distinct, as it agrees with _G. subulata_ in having the peduncle pilose and with _G. longiscapa_ in the cartilaginous-ciliate leaves which are glabrous on the mid-rib below. Specimens of the plant figured are preserved in the National Herbarium, Pretoria (Herb. No. 1447).