_Lachenalia pendula_ is a robust species of the genus, and is easily cultivated. It flowers freely under cultivation, and makes a very effective display. Our plate was prepared from specimens grown by Dr. I. B. Pole Evans, C.M.G., from bulbs supplied by Lady Smartt. DESCRIPTION:--_Bulb_ globose, 3·5 cm. in diameter, covered with thin membranous white tunics. _Leaves_ 2, clasping the base of the stem, up to 16 cm. long, up to 6 cm. broad below the middle, ovate, bluntly apiculate. _Peduncle_ (including the flowers) up to 27 cm. long, 8 mm. in diameter, terete. _Bracts_ small, broadly ovate, membranous. _Pedicels_ 6 mm. long. _Flowers_ arising from small pockets on the peduncle, first almost erect, then horizontal and at length pendulous. _Perianth-tube_ slightly gibbous and oblique at the base; outer segments 3·3 cm. long, 7 mm. broad, oblong-linear, obtuse, with an outstanding ridge on the back near the apex, of one only; inner segments longer than the outer, 3·5 cm. long, 1 cm. broad near the apex, obovate-oblong, almost truncate at the apex. _Stamens_ of two different lengths; the longer equalling the inner perianth-segments; the shorter slightly included; filaments terete, glabrous; anthers oblong. _Ovary_ 5 mm. long, ellipsoid; style slightly exceeding the longer stamens, minutely capitate at the apex. * * * * * PLATE 158.--Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of a flower; Fig. 2, part of outer perianth-segment showing transverse ridge; Fig. 3, part of inner perianth-segment; Fig. 4, stamen; Fig. 5, upper portion of style; Fig. 6, ovary; Fig. 7, portion of peduncle with bracts and pockets from which the flowers arise. F.P.S.A., 1924. [Illustration: _159._] PLATE 159. CYRTANTHUS GALPINI. _Transvaal._ * * * * * AMARYLLIDACEAE. Tribe AMARYLLEAE. CYRTANTHUS, _Ait._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 729. * * * * * =Cyrtanthus Galpinii=, _Baker in Kew Bull._ 1892, p. 83; _Fl. Cap._ vol. vi. p. 227. * * * * * We have pleasure in figuring for the first time this charming little _Cyrtanthus_ from the Barberton District of the Transvaal. According to Mr. G. J. Hofmeyr, B.Sc., of the Forest Department, who collected the flowers, the plants are found growing in long grass at Kaapse Hoop. The plant is subsocial, and forms conspicuous pink patches in the veld. Mr. Hofmeyr informs us that the flowers at Barberton are scarlet, and not alizams pink (R. C. S), as in the Kaapse Hoop plants. The species was first collected by Mr. E. E. Galpin, F.L.S., amongst rocks on Berea Ridge, near Barberton, in 1889. He describes the flowers as scarlet, dusted with gold. It flowers during the months of July and August. _C. Galpini_ falls into the same section of the genus as _C. helictus_, which we figured on Plate 99.