Our species was first figured in Curtis’ _Botanical Magazine_ in 1804 from a plant which was raised in Salisbury’s garden at Brompton, England. It is not at all a well-known plant, as it is only recorded in the _Flora Capensis_ as having been collected by Zeyher in the Clanwilliam District, and by Ecklon at Groenkloof in the Malmesbury District. The plant from which our plate was prepared was sent to the Division of Botany, Pretoria, by Mrs. E. Rood from Van Rhynsdorp. The genus _Ferraria_ is represented in South Africa by six species, and by one species in Angola. The flowers last only for a very short time after opening, but a succession of flowers appears on each plant. None of the species can be called ornamental from a gardener’s point of view, but the structure of the flower is very beautiful and the colouring quaint. Plants would only be grown as a botanical curiosity, and not for their beauty. Specimens are preserved in the National Herbarium, Pretoria (Herb. No. 1471). DESCRIPTION:--_Corms_ several arranged one on top of the other, discoid, about 3·5 cm. in diameter. _Plant_ about 23 cm. high. _Leaves_ three, 17-26 cm. long, linear and 1 cm. broad above, subacute, equitant and clasping the stem below. _Bracts_ subtending the inflorescences, resembling the leaves. _Bracts_ subtending the ultimate inflorescence 5-8 cm. long, 1·6-2·6 cm. broad, elliptic, boat-shaped, with membranous margins. _Perianth segments_ 2·5 cm. long, forming a campanulate portion 1·5 cm. long and 1·3 cm. in diameter, then spreading into a horizontal portion; the spreading portion 1·4 cm. long, 1·4 broad, ovate, subacute, with frilled margins. _Staminal tube_ 1·6 cm. long, cylindric, anther lobes diverging. _Ovary_ cylindric, with a beak 3 cm. long; stigmas long-fimbriated. * * * * * PLATE 66.--Fig. 1, corms; Fig. 2, flower; Fig. 3, top of style showing stigmas and anthers; Fig. 4, stigma. F.P.S.A., 1922. [Illustration: _67._ K. A. Lansdell del.] PLATE 67. HARVEYA SQUAMOSA. _Cape Province, Natal, Little Namaqualand._ * * * * * SCROPHULARIACEAE. Tribe GERARDIEAE. HARVEYA, _Hook._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. ii. p. 967. * * * * * =Harveya squamosa=, _Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed._ 2, i. 723: _Fl. Cap._ iv. sect 2, p. 413. * * * * *