This handsome _Ornithogalum_ was collected by Mr. E. Rood at Van Rhynsdorp, and forwarded to the Division of Botany, Pretoria. The perianth segments are a deep reddish-brown, edged with white, and the flowers are extremely fragrant. Specimens were sent to Kew, and the Director reports that the plant had not been matched, the nearest affinity being _O. suaveolens_, Jacq., and that it was evidently a new species. This species exhibits a device for cross-pollination by the movement of the style. As soon as the flower opens the style bends downwards, and is thus in a position to receive pollen from the abdomen of a visiting insect. As the flowers wither the perianth segments close up, and the style becomes erect and would then be self-pollinated if cross-pollination has not taken place. DESCRIPTION:--_Bulb_ 2·2 cm. long, 2·8 cm. in diameter, globose, white. _Leaves_ 3, up to 26 cm. long, 2·5 cm. broad at the base, lanceolate (when opened flat), becoming deeply channelled above, acuminate, clasping at the base, glabrous. _Peduncle_ up to 25 cm. long, greenish-brown, glabrous. _Infloresence_ about 14-flowered, more or less corymbose, 4 mm. long, about 6 cm. in diameter. _Bracts_ 1·4-2·5 cm. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate into a long fine point, membranous, as long as the pedicels. _Pedicels_ 1·1-2·5 cm. long, terete. _Perianth-segments_ free to the base, spreading, 1·2 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, oblong-lanceolate, dark purple with white margins, 5-nerved; the outer cucullate at the apex with a fringe of short glandular hairs; the inner rounded and fringed with short glandular hairs. _Filaments_ 8 mm. long, 1·5 mm. broad in widest part, lanceolate, acuminate, more or less compressed below, convex on both sides above; anthers 4 mm. long, oblong, each lobe with a short beak. _Ovary_ 5 mm. long, 2·5 mm. in diameter, 3-lobed, glabrous; style 6 mm. long, semiterete; the style in open flowers bent away from stamens and later becoming sharply bent; stigma semiglobose, covered with glandular hairs. * * * * * PLATE 75.--Fig. 1, flower; Fig. 2, bract; Fig. 3, stamen; Fig. 4, cross-section of ovary; Fig. 5, gynaecium; Fig. 6, outer perianth-segments, front and side views; Fig. 7, inner perianth-segments, front and side views. F.P.S.A., 1922. [Illustration: _76._ K. A. Lansdell del.] PLATE 76. PROTEA RECONDITA. _Cape Province._ * * * * * PROTEACEAE. Tribe PROTEEAE. PROTEA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 169. * * * * * =Protea recondita=, _Buek. ex Meisn. in DC. Prodr._ xiv. 237; _Fl. Cap._ vol. v. sect. i. p. 584. * * * * *