Our plate was prepared from specimens grown at the Division of Botany, Pretoria. The plant goes under the common names of “hondenoor,” “Konterie,” “Varkens ooren,” and “pig’s-ear.” DESCRIPTION:--Low shrubby somewhat succulent plant. _Stem_ with light-brown bark. _Leaves_ opposite, 6·5 to 8 cm. long, 4 to 4·5 cm. broad, obovate, subacute, glabrous, glaucous, with red margins. _Peduncle_ up to 27 cm. long, 8 mm. in diameter, terete, reddish in colour with a whitish bloom. _Inflorescence_ a panicle of cymes. _Calyx-tube_ almost none; lobes 5 mm. long, ovate, acute. _Corolla-tube_ 2·8 cm. long, 1·5 cm. in diameter; lobes 2 cm. long, 7 mm. broad, oblong, obtuse, slightly twisted counter-clockwise. _Stamens_ 10, five shorter inserted near the base of the corolla-tube, with a ring of hairs at the point of attachment and produced below the hairs into a strong rib; filaments subterete; anthers ovate. _Carpels_ as long as the shorter stamens. _Glands_ forming a deep concave body at the base of each carpel. PLATE 161.--Fig. 1, longitudinal median section of the flower; Fig. 2, gynæcium, showing glands; Fig. 3, stamen; Fig. 4, tuft of hairs on filament; Fig. 5, side view of gland at base of carpel. F.P.S.A., 1925. [Illustration: 162.] PLATE 162. SYNNOTIA BICOLOR. _Cape Province._ IRIDACEAE. Tribe IXIEAE. SYNNOTIA, _Sweet_; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 709. * * * * * =Synnotia bicolor=, _Sweet_, _Hort. Brit._ ed. 2, p. 501; _Fl. Cap._ vol. vi. p. 134. * * * * * This species was introduced into the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew by George Masson in 1786, and was described as a _Gladiolus_, and later in the _Botanical Magazine_ (t. 548) as a species of _Ixia_. From the former genus it is readily distinguished by the membranous lacerated spathe-valves and from the latter by the unilateral stamens. The plant is rather stiff, but the individual flowers are quite charming. As will be seen from the illustration, the flowers resemble in general shape those of _Gladiolus orchidi-florus_ shown at Plate 165 of this work. Our specimen was prepared from plants grown by Dr. I. B. Pole Evans, C.M.G., from corms forwarded by Mrs. E. Rood of van Rhynsdorp.