DESCRIPTION:--_Bulb_ 2·5 cm. long, 1·8 cm. in diameter, ovoid, covered with black membranous tunics with many fibrous roots from the base. _Leaves_ 2, erect-spreading, 7-14 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad in the widest part; the outer leaf always larger than the inner leaf, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, sometimes mucronate, narrowed and clasping at the base, with reddish margins, glabrous. _Peduncle_ 2-3·5 cm. long, about 7 mm. in diameter, partially hidden by the clasping leaf bases. _Inflorescence_ a dense many-flowered spike, 9-14 cm. long; axis fleshy, up to 8 cm. in diameter at the base, narrowing upwards, with a number of facets, each facet bearing a flower at the base. _Bracts_ about 1 mm. long, ovate, obtuse, forming a small pocket from which the flower arises. _Flowers_ subsessile; pedicels about 1 mm. long. _Perianth_ purplish, 1-1·2 cm. long, campanulate, oblique at the base; tube about 3 mm. long, about 5 mm. in diameter above; lobes of outer segments 8 mm. long, 4·75 mm. broad, oblong-ovate, obtuse, rostrate on the outer surface just beneath the apex; lobes of the inner segments 1 cm. long, 4·5 mm. broad above, oblong-obovate, rounded above. _Stamens_ exserted, attached to base of the perianth segments; filaments 1·2 cm. long, terete; anthers 1·5 mm. long, oblong. _Ovary_ 3·5 mm. long, 2·5 mm. in diameter, oblong in outline, trigonous; style 1·1 cm. long, terete, stigma very faintly 3-lobed. PLATE 91.--Fig. 1, base of leaves; Fig. 2, axis of inflorescence showing the small cups in which the flowers are situated; Fig. 3, a single flower; Fig. 4, perianth laid open; Fig. 5, apices of outer perianth segments; Fig. 6, apex of an inner perianth segment. Fig. 7, stamens; Fig. 8, pistil. F.P.S.A., 1923. [Illustration: _92._ S. Gower del.] PLATE 92. BRUNIA STOKOEI. _Cape Province._ BRUNIACEAE. BRUNIA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. i. p. 671. =Brunia Stokoei=, _Phillips_ in _Kew Bulletin_, 1923, _ined._ This is the first occasion upon which we have had an opportunity of figuring a member of the Natural Order _Bruniaceae_, which is one of the endemic South African families. The _Bruniaceae_ comprise about fifty species, all confined to the south-western portion of the Cape Province. The genera _Brunia_ and _Berzelia_ often form a conspicuous feature in the landscape in some areas, the spherical heads of white flowers making the bushes noticeable amongst the surrounding vegetation.