This species is, so far as we know, confined to the dry western portions of the Cape Province, S.W. Protectorate, Transvaal, and Orange Free State. Burchell found the plant both in Griqualand West and in Bechuanaland, and Burke on his journey up to the Transvaal found it near the Sand River in the Orange Free State. In habit the species very much resembles a dwarf _Brunsvigia_, but is distinguished from this genus by the obtusely angled ovary. The short stout peduncle is also found in two other species of _Nerine_. A coloured plant of _N. lucida_ was published in 1820 (_Botanical Register_, Plate 497), drawn from a plant which flowered in the garden of Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg. The specimens from which the accompanying Plate was prepared were collected at Vryburg by Mr. A. O. D. Mogg, and flowered at the Division of Botany, Pretoria, in 1924. DESCRIPTION:--_Bulb_ globose, 4 cm. in diameter, produced into a neck about 4 cm. long. _Leaves_ 6, contemporary with the flowers, about 18 cm. long, about 12 mm. broad, strap-shaped, obtuse, bright green. _Peduncle_ lateral, about 12 cm. long, compressed. _Inflorescence_ an umbel of 20 flowers. _Pedicels_ up to 7 cm. long, shortly hairy. _Spathe-valves_ ovate-lanceolate, membranous, shorter than the pedicels. _Perianth-segments_ 15 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, lanceolate-linear, obtuse. _Stamens_ declinate, almost as long as the perianth segments. _Ovary_ obtusely trigonous; style declinate, as long as the stamens. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2835.) PLATE 134.--Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of a flower; Fig. 2, upper portion of perianth lobe, showing apex; Fig. 3, cross-section through the peduncle. F.P.S.A., 1924. [Illustration: _135._] PLATE 135. EULOPHIA LEONTOGLOSSA. _Orange Free State, Transvaal, Cape Province, Natal._ * * * * * ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe VANDEAE. EULOPHIA, _R.Br._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant_. vol. iii. p. 535. * * * * * =Eulophia leontoglossa=, _Reichb. f. in Flora_, 1881, 329; _Fl. Cap_. vol. v. sect. iii. p. 45. * * * * * This charming little _Eulophia_ is found in the summer months round Pretoria growing in the grass veld, and is fairly abundant. Like many other plants found in the neighbourhood of the Magaliesberg, it was collected by the travellers Burke and Zeyher. It ranges from the Maclear Division, through the Orange Free State, to Natal and the Transvaal. _E. leontoglossa_ belongs to the same small group (four species) in the genus as _E. Zeyheri_ (figured on Plate 119), which is characterised by the flowers being arranged in congested racemes or short heads. Like _E. Zeyheri_ also, the tubers are arranged in a linear series and resemble large oval beads. Our figure was made from specimens collected by Dr. I. B. Pole Evans, C.M.G., at Irene, near Pretoria.