DESCRIPTION:--An acaulescent plant. _Leaves_ up to 33 cm. long, 4·5 cm. broad at the base, lanceolate, acuminate, acute, concave, sparsely covered with greenish-white spots near the base and with rigidly ciliated margins. _Inflorescence_ about 50 cm. long, terete, glabrous, bearing a few distant membranous ovate acuminate acute bracts. _Inflorescence_ congested, corymbose. _Bracts_ 1·5 cm. long, ovate, acuminate, acute. _Pedicels_ 3 cm. long, terete, glabrous. _Perianth_ 2·8 to 3·2 cm. long; lobes 2·7 cm. long, 6 mm. broad, linear, obtuse. _Filaments_ 2 cm. long, filiform; anthers linear. _Ovary_ 1 cm. long, cylindric; style 2·7 cm. long, filiform; stigma simple. (National Herb. Pretoria, No. 2645.) PLATE 111.--Fig. 1, plant much reduced; 2, median longitudinal section of flower; 3, perianth segments; 4, anther; 5, style; 6, cross-section of leaf about the middle. F.P.S.A., 1923. [Illustration: _112._ K.A. Lansdell del.] PLATE 112. ERYTHRINA HUMEANA. _Cape Province, Natal._ LEGUMINOSAE. Tribe PHASEOLEAE. ERYTHRINA, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. i. p. 531. =Erythrina Humeana=, _Spreng. Syst._ iii. 243; _E. Humei, E. Mey. Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr._ 150; _Fl. Cap._ vol. i. p. 237. In a previous issue, on Plate 59, we figured the Kaffir Boom (_Erythrina caffra_), from which the present species differs in being of a dwarf habit and having the nerves of the leaves and petioles covered with prickles. It is a common plant on the slopes of the Drakensberg in Natal, extending southward to Grahamstown, and during the summer months the bright red flowers are very conspicuous in the veld. The leaves of this species, as well as those of _E. caffra_, are attacked by a gall-producing insect, and the seeds are attacked by insects to such an extent that it is difficult to find ripe seed. The species has been known to cultivators in Europe for over 100 years, and was figured in the _Botanical Magazine_ as early as 1823. It is a very handsome shrub which stands from 4 to 8 ft. high, and is well worth cultivation.