DESCRIPTION:--A dwarf succulent 4·5 cm. high. _Leaves_ fleshy, 4-ranked, strongly reflexed, 3 cm. long, 1·2 cm. broad at the base, ovate, acuminate, obtuse, flat above with a distinct keel, somewhat convex beneath, scurfy. _Flowers_ in heads 2·5 to 3 cm. in diameter surrounded by floral-leaves. _Floral-leaves_ 1·2 cm. long, 1·5 cm. broad at the base, ovate, suddenly contracted into a fleshy cylindric appendage. _Receptacle_ convex. _Floral-bracts_ 4·5 mm. long, linear, ciliated. _Caylx-lobes_ 3 mm. long, linear, cucullate at the apex, ciliate. _Petals_ 5·5 mm. long, linear, slightly broadened below, concave. _Filaments_ 1 mm. long, slender; anthers 1·25 mm. long, oblong. _Carpels_ 2 mm. long. _Hypogynous scales_ transversely oblong, on distinct stalks. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2936.) PLATE 189.--Fig. 1, flower-bud; Fig. 2, petal with 2 stamens; Fig. 3, carpels; Fig. 4, longitudinal section of head showing convex receptacle; Fig. 5, cross-section through leaf; Fig. 6, leaf. F.P.S.A., 1925. [Illustration: 190.] PLATE 190. HAEMANTHUS ALBIFLOS. _Cape Province._ AMARYLLIDACEAE. Tribe AMARYLLEAE. HAEMANTHUS, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 730. * * * * * =Haemanthus albiflos=, _Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr._ i. 31, t. 59; _Fl. Cap._ vol. vi. p. 235. * * * * * This species of _Haemanthus_ was known to European horticulturists almost 150 years ago and was first shown in colour by Jacquin in 1797. In the _Botanical Magazine_ it was again figured in 1810 (Plate 1239) from plants which flowered in the greenhouse of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy of Hammersmith. The plant has been recorded from the Uitenhage, Graaf Reinet and Somerset East Divisions of the Cape Province, but does not appear to have been extensively collected. In general habit _H. albiflos_ resembles _H. natalensis_ figured in Plate 32, but the leaves are thicker and more fleshy. The species responds well to proper cultivation and has been successfully grown at the Division of Botany, Pretoria. It was from plants grown at Pretoria that our Plate was prepared.