DESCRIPTION:--_Bulb_ 1·8 cm. long, 1·5 cm. in diameter, globose, covered with papery tunics and produced into a neck about 1 to 1·5 cm. long. _Leaves_ usually one, more rarely two, 9 cm. long, filiform, quite terete or with a shallow channel, glabrous. _Peduncle_ 15 cm. long, terete, glabrous. _Inflorescence_ a centripetal umbel of about nine flowers. _Spathe-valves_ 2 mm. long, ovate, acute. _Pedicels_ 8 mm. long, terete, glabrous. _Perianth-segments_ 8 mm. long, 1·5 mm. broad, linear, much crisped, with 3 segments minutely and bluntly apiculate and with papillae at the apex. _Filaments_ attached to base of perianth-segments, 5 mm. long, terete; anthers 1 mm. long, orbicular, basifixed. _Ovary_ 2·5 mm. in diameter, globose, glabrous with a single ovule in each cell; style 7 mm. long, terete; stigmas 3, papillose. (National Herb. Pretoria, No. 2713.) PLATE 120.--Fig. 1, section of part of leaf showing shallow channel; 2, involucral bract; 3, median longitudinal section of flower; 4, perianth segment; 5, anther; 6, style and stigmas; 7, fruit. F.P.S.A., 1923. INDEX TO VOLUME III, PLATE ADENIA DIGITATA, 113 ADENIUM OLEIFOLIUM, 105 ALOE COMOSA, 107 ALOE MICROCANTHA, 111 ALOE SAPONARIA, 96 ALOE VARIEGATA, 86 BRACHICORYTHIS PUBESCENS, 103 BRUNIA STOKOEI, 92 CERATOTHECA TRILOBA, 87 CHRYSOPHYLLUM MAGALISMONTANUM, 98 CLEMATOPSIS STANLEYI, 81 CRASSULA CONGESTA, 115 CRATEROSTIGMA PLANTAGINEUM, 106 CYRTANTHUS HELICTUS, 99 DICOMA ZEYHERI, 88 ERYTHRINA HUMEANA, 112 EULOPHIA ZEYHERI, 119 GERBERA PLANTAGINEA, 85 GLADIOLUS PSITTACINUS, 116 GREYIA RADLKOFERI, 101 HESSEA REHMANNI, 120 HOODIA BAINII, 93 HYOBANCHE FULLERI, 89 LACHENALIA ROODEAE, 91