We may perhaps be excused for figuring this species, which has appeared as a plate more than once in Curtis’s _Botanical Magazine_. It is, however, still such a favourite with cultivators that it is deemed worthy of a figure in a South African publication. Like other of our native plants it was known in European gardens many years ago, and is recorded as having flowered at Kew Gardens in 1707. As a cultivated plant it was known under the name of _Tritoma Uvaria_, which was later changed to _Kniphofia Uvaria_. It was also described by Linnaeus about the year 1735 as an _Aloe_. Specimens of the plant in cultivation may be seen in many South African gardens. It is the most robust and most variable species of the genus. In the coastal districts of Natal two varieties, _nobilis_ and _maxima_, are found, but our figure and description apply to the typical form. The common name is the “Red-hot poker.” The natives of Natal know the plant as “i-Cacane.” The plate was drawn from a specimen collected near Durban in July, 1914. DESCRIPTION:--A perennial stemless plant with radical leaves, and long naked peduncles, bearing a short spike of flowers at their apices. _Rootstock_ thickened, not tuberous. _Leaves_ 30-45 cm. long, 1·5-1·8 cm. broad low down, strap-shaped, acuminate, sheathing at the base, green, strongly and acutely keeled, with smooth margins. _Peduncle_ a little shorter than the leaves, terete. _Inflorescence_ 5 cm. long, dense, more or less cylindric. _Bracts_ 0·3-1·2 cm. long, 3-6 mm. broad, ovate, obtuse or acute. _Perianth-tube_ 3-4 cm. long, 5 mm. in diameter at the throat, more or less cylindric, 6-veined; lobes 2 mm. long, ovate, obtuse. _Stamens_ 6, not all lengthening at the same time, exserted in the lower flowers. _Ovary_ 3-celled, with many (12 or more) ovules in each cell; style exserted in the lower flowers; stigma obtuse. * * * * * PLATE 47.--Fig. 1, plant, reduced; Fig. 2, inflorescence; Fig. 3, flower with subtending bract; Fig. 4, leaf; Fig. 6, gynaecium; Figs. 6 and 7, stamens, front and back view; Fig. 8, cross-section through the ovary. F.P.S.A., 1922. [Illustration: _48_ K. A. Lansdell del.] PLATE 48. HELIOPHILA SCANDENS. _Natal._ * * * * * CRUCIFERAE. Tribe SISYMBRIEAE. HELIOPHILA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant._ vol. i. p. 81. * * * * * =Heliophila Scandens=, _Harv. Thes. Cap._ vol. ii. p. 43, t. 166; _Bot. Mag._ t. 7668. * * * * * Harvey first described and figured this remarkable species of _Heliophila_ in 1863, from specimens which he received from Mr. M‘Ken. The late Dr. Medley Wood sent a plant of it to Kew in 1885, which flowered in the succulent house the following year, and has continued to do so about mid-winter ever since. From the plant which flowered at Kew a plate was prepared for the _Botanical Magazine_, t. 7668.