DESCRIPTION:--_Tubers_ subglobose, about 2 cm. broad; leaves 2 or 3 in a fascicle, linear or lanceolate-linear, acute or acuminate, 10 to 36 cm. long, 1·25 to 8 mm. broad. _Scapes_ erect, 10 to 35 cm. long, with a few lanceolate acuminate sheaths below. _Flower-heads_ congested or rarely oblong, 2·5 to 5 cm. long; bracts linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 1·3 to 2 cm. long; pedicels 6 to 8 mm. long; lip 3-lobed, elliptic-oblong, narrowed at the base, about as long as the petals; side-lobes somewhat divergent, oblong, obtuse or truncate, short; front lobe elliptic-oblong, obtuse; disc with 5 obscure keels below, papillose above, and with the surface of the front lobe strongly papillose all over; spur oblong or subclavate, obtuse, 4 mm. long; column clavate, 4 mm. long. (_Fl. Cap._) * * * * * PLATE 135.--Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2, lip; Fig. 3, sepal; Fig. 4, petal; Fig. 5, column; Fig. 6, pollinia. F.P.S.A., 1924. [Illustration: _136._] PLATE 136. HAEMANTHUS KATHARINAE. _Natal, Transvaal._ * * * * * AMARYLLIDACEAE. Tribe AMARYLLEAE. HAEMANTHUS, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant_. vol. iii. p. 730. * * * * * =Haemanthus Katharinae=, _Baker in Gard. Chron._ 1877, vol. vii. p. 656; _Fl. Cap._ vol. vi. p. 231. * * * * * On Plate 32 of this work we figured a species of _Haemanthus_ (_H. natalensis_) which differs from the present species in having the involucral-bracts erect instead of spreading. _Haemanthus Katharinae_, with its spreading involucral-bracts and perianth-segments, is unique in this respect amongst the South African species of the genus. On the inflorescence figured was an odd flower with 8 perianth-lobes and 8 stamens. The species was introduced into England in 1877 by Mr. Keith, who was then Superintendent of the Durban Botanic Gardens. In 1884 an excellent figure (Plate 6778) appeared in the _Botanical Magazine_, made from plants which flowered at Kew from bulbs sent by Mr. W. B. Lyle of Kirkly Vale Estate, Natal. We are indebted to Mr. P. S. Follwell, Isezela, Natal, for our specimen, which was cultivated at the Division and flowered in January 1923. DESCRIPTION:--_Stem_ up to 18 cm. long. _Leaves_ 5 to 6 to a plant, contemporary with the flowers, 20 to 30 cm. long, 10 to 13 cm. broad, oblong, shortly mucronate; petiole 3 to 4 cm. long, channelled above. _Peduncle_ lateral, terete, up to 40 cm. long. _Inflorescence_ a many-flowered umbel. _Bracts_ 6, membranous, spreading or reflexed. _Pedicels_ slender, 2·5 to 4 cm. long. _Perianth-tube_ 2 cm. long; lobes 2·5 cm. long, linear-lanceolate, spreading or reflexed. _Stamens_ inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube; filaments 4·5 cm. long, erect; anthers 3 mm. long. _Ovary_ ellipsoid; style up to 6 cm. long; stigma simple. (National Herb. Pretoria, No. 2837.) * * * * *