DESCRIPTION:--A climber. _Stem_ fleshy, glabrous. _Leaves_ shortly petioled, 3·5-6 cm. long, 1·5-3·5 cm. broad, broadly oblong or oblong-ovate, apex rounded and shortly pointed, cordate at the base, glabrous; lateral nerves about four on each side; petiole about 1 cm. long. _Inflorescence_ a 1-3-flowered axillary cyme; pedicels 1·2-1·5 cm. long, terete, glabrous. _Sepals_ 4-5 mm. long, subulate, glabrous. _Corolla_ abruptly bent at a right angle near the base; tube (following the bend) 2·6 cm. long, globosely inflated at the base, widening upwards and about 2 cm. in diameter at the mouth, glabrous without, finely pilose within; lobes free at the base, abruptly inflexed over the mouth of the tube and produced beneath into broad triangular partition-like green plates or keels, meeting at the centre and connate into a slender erect column about 2-3 mm. long, then again becoming free and expanding into elliptic-lanceolate replicate segments, connate at the tips, forming a small apical ellipsoid cage-like body, 5-8 mm. long, ciliate on the margins. _Outer corona_ cupular, with five broad emarginate lobes arising to the level of the staminal column, ciliate and hairy within with long fine hairs; inner corona lobes about 2·5 mm. long, linear, connivent-erect over the staminal column, with revolute tips. _Follicles_ about 14 cm. long, strongly falcate, recurved at the tips. * * * * * PLATE 44.--Fig. 1, portion of stem with leaves and flowers, nat. size; Fig. 2, calyx; Fig. 3, lobe of corolla; Fig. 4, outer and inner corona; Fig. 5, staminal column; Fig. 6, pollinia; Fig. 7, follicles, nat. size. All enlarged with the exceptions of Figs. 1 and 7. F.P.S.A., 1922. [Illustration: _45._ M. Page del.] PLATE 45. WATSONIA GALPINII. _Cape Province._ * * * * * IRIDACEAE. Tribe IXIEAE. WATSONIA, _Mill._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. viii. p. 705. * * * * * =Watsonia Galpinii=, _L. Bolus. Ann. Bolus Herb._ vol. iii. p. 11. * * * * * We have pleasure in figuring in this number, through the kindness of the Curator of the Bolus Herbarium, our first species of one of the most popular of South African genera, namely, _Watsonia_. Species of this genus have long been known in European Gardens, where they were introduced by the early botanical collectors from the Cape. The genus is represented in South Africa by about twenty species, and with the exception of a species which occurs in Madagascar, are confined to the sub-continent. The Watsonias lend themselves to hybridising, and some very fine garden hybrids have been produced. The species here figured was first discovered by Mr. E. E. Galpin at Lottering Bush, Zitzikama (_Galpin_ No. 4698), and re-collected at Knysna by Miss A. V. Duthie, who sent corms to the National Botanic Gardens, where they flowered in March, 1919 (No. 239/18).