DESCRIPTION:--A half-climbing shrub, growing to a height of 5-30 ft. _Branches_ with light-brown bark, minutely pubescent. _Leaves_ petioled; lamina 1-3 cm. long, 3-5·5 cm. broad, more or less reniform in outline, lobed above, subcordate at the base, with the veining distinct above and prominent beneath, glabrous; petioles 8-1·5 cm. long, convex beneath, channelled above. _Stipules_ 3 mm. long, deciduous. _Flowers_ in 3-7-flowered racemes opposite the leaves. _Bracts_ and bracteoles 3 mm. long, setaceous, deciduous. _Buds_ light brown, acuminate, pubescent. _Calyx-tube_, 2-2·7 cm. long; limb spathaceous, unilateral in open flowers. _Petals_ long clawed; claws 2 cm. long, somewhat compressed; limb 1·7-2 cm. long, 1·5-1·7 cm. broad, ovate, apiculate, subcordate, at the base. _Fertile stamens_ 4; filaments 2·5 cm. long, terete, bent inwards above; anthers 7 mm. long, linear. _Staminodes_ 5 mm. long, setaceous, sometimes deeply 2-lobed. _Ovary_ on a long gynophore 1·5 cm. long, silky pubescent; style 5 mm. long, stigma capitate. _Fruit_ 12·5 cm. long, 2·5 cm. broad, with a double margin along one edge, oblanceolate, tipped with the persistent style, and narrowed at the base. _Seeds_ 1·9 cm. long, oblong, flattened, dark brown. * * * * * PLATE 79.--Fig. 1, surface view of flower to show staminodes, the limb of the petals removed; Fig. 2, pistil, showing long gynophore; Fig. 3, stamen; Figs. 4, 5, front and side views of calyx; Fig. 6, fruit. F.P.S.A., 1922. [Illustration: _80._ S. Gower del.] PLATE 80. KLATTIA STOKOEI. _Cape Province._ * * * * * IRIDACEAE. Tribe SISYRINCHIEAE. KLATTIA, _B. Kr._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant_. vol. iii. p. 702. * * * * * =Klattia Stokoei=, _L. Guthrie in Annals Bolus Herb_. vol. iii. p. 76. * * * * * The discovery of this remarkable plant by Mr. T. P. Stokoe on the Hottentot’s Holland Mountains, near Somerset West, adds another species to one of the South African endemic genera, which hitherto has been regarded as monotypic. _Klattia partita_, found by Bowie, Thunberg, and Burchell, is a rare plant, and is only known from the Langebergen near Swellendam. It is figured by Marloth in “The Flora of South Africa,” t. 41. Our present species differs from _K. partita_ in the more spreading leaves, the very much shorter perianth-tube, the narrower segments which have a red limb, and the larger capsule. The genus _Klattia_ is closely related to _Witsenia_, which we figured on plate 34, but is distinguished from this genus by having a very short perianth-tube and long segments, much longer than the tube. _Klattia_ was named in honour of Dr. F. W. Klatt, a teacher at Hamburg, who published several memoirs on the _Iridaceae_. Specimens are preserved in the National Herbarium, Pretoria (Herb. No. 1436).