* * * * * In a collection of succulents received from South-West Africa and planted at the Division of Botany, Pretoria, fruits of this _Gazania_ were evidently mixed with the soil, as a plant grew in the succulent bed. It is a somewhat remarkable species and differs considerably in habit from the two species previously figured on Plates 51 and 64. The whole plant is covered with cobwebby hairs. The leaves are somewhat succulent, extremely brittle, and snap when bent; they are also easily snapped from the branches. The single specimen in the garden has made vigorous growth and promises to do well under cultivation. It flowered in May of this year. DESCRIPTION:--A branched herb up to 30 cm. high. _Branches_ cobwebby. _Leaves_ 5·5 to 7·5 cm. long, 1 to 1·5 cm. broad above, obovate-spathulate, narrowed into a petiole, pungent at the apex, irregularly lobed, or toothed, with the lobes and teeth tipped with a short pungent mucro, cobwebby above and beneath. _Flower-heads_ in the axils of the leaves. _Peduncles_ slightly longer, as long as or shorter than the leaves with tufts of cobwebby hairs. _Involucre_ 1·8 cm. long, 6 mm. in diameter below, the concrete portion oblong in outline, inflexed at the base, sparsely cobwebby; outermost lobes 2·5 to 4 mm. long, ovate, acute; inner lobes 1 cm. long, ovate, acuminate, acute, with membranous margin. _Ray-florets_ neuter; tube 9 mm. long, somewhat compressed; limb 1·6 cm. long, 7 mm. broad, obovate-elliptic, yellow, with a black eye-spot. _Disc-florets_: tube 7 mm. long, cylindric; lobes 1·5 mm. long, oblong, shortly acuminate, subobtuse. _Anthers_ minutely sagittate at the base. _Ovary_ very villous; style-branches linear, obtuse. _Pappus_ of many delicate very narrow scales 5 mm. long. PLATE 183.--Fig. 1, involucre; Fig. 2, longitudinal section through involucre; Fig. 3, ray-floret; Fig. 4, disc-floret. F.P.S.A., 1925. [Illustration: 184.] PLATE 184. LACHENALIA RUBIDA var. TIGRINA. _Cape Province._ LILIACEAE. Tribe SCILLEAE. LACHENALIA, _Jacq._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 807. * * * * * =Lachenalia rubida=, _Jacq._ var. =tigrina=, _Bkr. Fl. Cap._ vol. vi. p. 424. * * * * * On Plate 158 we figured a species _Lachenalia pendula_ belonging to the same subgenus (_Eulachenalia_) as the species here described. _Lachenalia rubida_ is a graceful little plant, though not so handsome as some species of the genus. It was figured by Jacquin between the years 1786-1793, from plants cultivated in Europe, so that it has been known for over 130 years to botanists. The species appears to be confined to the Clanwilliam, Calvinia and van Rhynsdorp Districts of the Cape Province, and as far as our records go does not appear to have been frequently collected. We are indebted to Mrs. E. Rood of van Rhynsdorp for the specimens from which our Plate was prepared.