DESCRIPTION:--A bush. _Youngest_ branchlets rufo-tomentose, at length becoming pubescent. _Leaves_ petioled; blades 3-9 cm. long, 1·6-4·4 cm. broad, oblong-obovate or oblong, retuse at the apex, slightly narrowed at the base, dark green above, rufo-tomentose beneath on young leaves, becoming greyish tomentose on the older leaves; petiole 1 cm. long, pubescent. _Flowers_ arising on the old wood. _Pedicels_ 2 mm. long, rufo-tomentose. _Sepals_ unequal 2·5-3 mm. long, 2-3·5 mm. broad, ovate, obtuse; the 3 outer longer than the 2 inner and densely rufo-tomentose. _Corolla-tube_ 1 mm. long; lobes 2·5 mm. long, ovate, obtuse. _Filaments_ 1·5-2 mm. long, terete, glabrous; anthers 1 mm. long, oblong in outline. _Ovary_ 2 mm. in diameter, villous, gradually passing into the 1·5 mm. long style; stigma terminal, simple. _Fruit_ 2·5 cm. long, 1·7 cm. in diameter, ellipsoid, dark-red when ripe (National Herb. Pretoria 2636). * * * * * PLATE 98.--Fig. 1, flower; Fig. 2, portion of corolla and stamens; Fig. 3, stamen; Fig. 4, pistil; Fig. 5, seed. F.P.S.A., 1923. [Illustration: 99. K A Lansdell del.] PLATE 99. CYRTANTHUS HELICTUS. _Cape Province._ AMARYLLIDACEAE. Tribe AMARYLLEAE. CYRTANTHUS, _Ait._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 729. =Cyrtanthus helictus=, _Lehm. Delect. Sem. Hort. Hamburg_. 1839, 7; _Fl. Cap._ vol. vi. p. 226. This species of _Cyrtanthus_ belongs to the same group as the species figured on Plate 25 (_C. sanguineus_). The group is characterised by having a single flower or few flowers in each umbel. Our previous illustrations of _Cyrtanthus_ should be compared with the above two and the present plate. _C. helictus_, which is an exceptionally graceful representative of the genus, has not been extensively collected by botanists, and we know of its occurrence in the Somerset East, Graaff Reinet, Fort Beaufort, and Queenstown Divisions only. It should certainly engage the attention of cultivators of South African plants, as it is well worthy of a place in the bulb garden. Our illustration was made from specimens collected by Dr. E. P. Phillips near Fort Beaufort; these flowered at the Division of Botany in November 1922.