The general name of “pijpie” is applied to almost all species of _Watsonia_ and also to some species of _Gladiolus_. DESCRIPTION:--_Corm_ 2 cm. in diameter, depressed-globose, oblique at the base. _Stem_ 75 cm. long, racemose. _Leaves_ 4-8, radical, up to 35 cm. long, 1-1·5 cm. broad, linear, acute, acuminate, with the median and marginal nerves somewhat subprominent. _Inflorescence_ simple or branched. _Spathe-valves_ herbaceous or submembranous at the apex; the outer 0·6-3·2 cm. long, lanceolate, setaceous acuminate; the inner 0·8-1·4 cm. long, ovate or broadly ovate, acuminate. _Perianth-tube_ 2 cm. long, constricted about the middle; the lower half filiform, scarcely 1·5 mm. in diameter; the upper half infundibuliform, 7 mm. in diameter near the throat; lobes spreading, 1·5 cm. long; the outer up to 8 mm. broad, suboblong, subacute, minutely apiculate; the inner 1 cm. broad, oblong-obovate. _Stamens_ almost as long as the perianth lobes; anthers 9 mm. long. _Ovary_ about 5 mm. long, subobconic; style 2·9 cm. long; primary branches 9 mm. long; stigmas about 2 mm. long. _Fruit_ 1 cm. long, obconic. Mrs. Bolus remarks, “Distinguished from the rest of the section ‘Eu-Watsonia’ by the more slender habit, the smaller spathe-valves, the shorter perianth-tube and relatively long segments.” * * * * * PLATE 45.--Fig. 1, flower, perianth laid open; Fig. 2, portion of fruiting spike; Fig. 3, capsule, dehisced, about natural size; Fig. 4, seed × 2. F.P.S.A., 1922. [Illustration: _46._ S. Gower del.] PLATE 46. MASSONIA LATIFOLIA. _Cape Province, Little Namaqualand._ * * * * * LILIACEAE. Tribe ALLIEAE. MASSONIA, _Thunb._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 806. * * * * * =Massonia latifolia=, _Linn. fil._ Suppl. 193; _Fl. Cap._ vol. vi. p. 416. * * * * * All the species of _Massonia_, an endemic Cape genus of the _Liliaceae_, have fragrant hyacinthoid flowers, arising in a sessile cluster from between two broad prostrate leaves. The name was given to the genus by Carl Thunberg to commemorate the name of Francis Masson, who was sent to the Cape in 1772 as collector for the Royal Gardens at Kew, and who was responsible for introducing a large number of Cape plants into cultivation. The first 20 volumes of Curtis’s _Botanical Magazine_, which contain 786 plates, have nearly one-third devoted to figures of Cape species, mostly sent to Kew Gardens by Masson.