DESCRIPTION:--_Inflorescence_ about 8-flowered. _Spathe-valves_ 2; the larger 11·5 cm. long, 1 cm. broad, green and lanceolate above, red and strongly keeled below, subacute, glabrous; the smaller red 5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, rounded above, keeled on the back with the keel produced into a beak 7 mm. long. _Floral_ bracts white 3 cm. long, keeled, acute. _Perianth-segments_ divided almost to the base 5·7 cm. long, filiform below, broadened above into a linear portion 1 mm. broad. _Filaments_ 4·5 mm. long, filiform; anthers 1 mm. long, linear, sagittate at the base. _Ovary_ 2 mm. long, 2 mm. in diameter, obovate in outline. Style 6 cm. long, filiform; stigma simple. _Capsule_ 1·3 cm. long. _Seeds_ 8 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, linear, concave in front, silky and 2-grooved at the back. * * * * * PLATE 80.--Fig. 1, portion of stem; Fig. 2, inflorescence; Figs. 3, 4, spathe valves; Fig. 5, a single flower laid open; Fig. 6, pistil; Fig. 7, anther; Fig. 8, ovary; Fig. 9, top of style, showing the three stigmas. F.P.S.A., 1922. INDEX TO VOLUME II. PLATE ALOE EXCELSA, 62 ALOE STRIATA, 55 ALOE WICKENSII, 41 ANDROCYMBIUM MELANTHIOIDES, 53 BAUHINIA GALPINII, 79 CEROPEGIA TRISTIS, 44 COMMELINA BENGHALENSIS, 42 CORYCIUM CRISPUM, 61 CROSSANDRA GREENSTOCKII, 77 DAUBENYA AUREA, var. COCCINEA, 71 DIMORPHOTHECA SPECTABILIS, 57 ERYTHRINA CAFFRA, 59 FERRARIA ANTHEROSA, 66 GAZANIA PAVONIA, 69 GAZANIA PYGMAEA, 64 GAZANIA SUBULATA, 51 GLADIOLUS ALATUS, var. NAMAQUENSIS, 63 GLADIOLUS PRITZELII, 68 HARVEYA SQUAMOSA, 67 HELIOPHILA SCANDENS, 48 HESSEA ZEYHERI, 43 HOLMSKIOLDIA SPECIOSA, 49 KLATTIA STOKOEI, 80 KNIPHOFIA ALOOIDES, 47 LEUCOSPERMUM TOTTUM, var. GLABRUM, 74 MASSONIA LATIFOLIA, 46 MESEMBRYANTHEMUM ALOIDES, 54 MESEMBRYANTHEMUM CRASSIPES, 73 MIMETES CAPITULATA, 58 OCHNA PRETORIENSIS, 70 ORNITHOGALUM ROODIAE, 75 ORNITHOGALUM THUNBERGIANUM, 65 PELARGONIUM CRASSICAULE, 52 POLYXENA HAEMANTHOIDES, 56 PROTEA RECONDITA, 76 RHAMPHICARPA TUBULOSA, 50 ROODIA DIGITIFOLIA, 78 SPARAXIS GRANDIFLORA, 60 STAPELIA PILLANSII, var. ATTENUATA, 72 WATSONIA GALPINII, 45