During the month of September the veld round Pretoria is carpeted with the white flowers of this little _Gazania_. It is one of the first, if not the first plant to flower on burnt veld, and the contrast in colour between the white flowers and the young green grass is very striking. While so extremely common during the spring months, this species appears to be little known botanically. It was evidently first collected by the botanist Karl Zeyher on the Magaliesberg about the year 1841, and the description in the _Flora Capensis_ based on Zeyher’s specimen is the most recent published information we have about this species. The plants are tufted, several underground stems arising from a stout tap-root. The present plate was prepared from specimens collected by Mr. D. Fouche on the outskirts of Pretoria. Specimens are preserved in the National Herbarium, Pretoria. DESCRIPTION:--Acaulescent plants with several subterranean stems from the apex of the deep tap-root. _Leaves_ crowded, radical, 2·5-6·5 cm. long, 3-5 mm. broad, linear, with an acute callous at the apex, attenuated at the base, somewhat channelled above, hispid on the upper surface, woolly-canescent beneath except on the midrib, entire, spinulose-ciliate. _Heads_ many to each root. _Peduncle_ about 3·5 cm. long, sparsely woolly, especially beneath the involucre, or subglabrous. _Involucral-tube_ 7 mm. long, 6 mm. in diameter, turbinate; lobes in 4 rows; outer lobes 6 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, linear, obtuse, spinulose-ciliate; inner lobes 4 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, ovate, obtuse with reddish-brown membranous margins. _Ray-florets_ neuter, white with a purplish band beneath; corolla tube 7 mm. long, cylindric; limb 1·7 mm. long, 4·5 mm. broad, lanceolate, bifid at the apex, with each lobe minutely 2-toothed, about 7-nerved and distinctly 2-keeled beneath. _Disc-florets_ hermaphrodite; corolla-tube 6 mm. long, subcylindric, somewhat 5-angled, glabrous; lobes 1·5 mm. long, ·5 mm. broad, lanceolate, obtuse. _Pappus_ of hyaline linear scales 1·5 mm. long. _Ovary_ covered with long silky hairs; style 7 mm. long, cylindric (lengthening with age); stigmas ·75 long, linear, obtuse. * * * * * PLATE 64.--Fig. 1, young flower head; Fig. 2, section through involucre; Fig. 3, flower head just before opening; Fig. 4, surface view of flower head; Fig. 5, corolla of ray-florets; Fig. 6, disc floret; Fig. 7, leaf; all variously enlarged. F.P.S.A., 1922. [Illustration: _65._ K.A. Lansdell del.] PLATE 65. ORNITHOGALUM THUNBERGIANUM. _Cape Province._ * * * * * LILIACEAE. Tribe SCILLEAE. ORNITHOGALUM, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 815. * * * * * =Ornithogalum Thunbergianum=, _Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc._ vol. xiii. p. 269; _Fl. Cap._ vol. vi. p. 497. * * * * *