DESCRIPTION:--A simple erect herb. _Bulb_ 2 cm. in diameter, 2·5 cm. high, ovoid, with brown tunics. _Leaves_ 2 to 6, 6 to 10 cm. long, 2 to 3 cm. broad at the base, linear to linear-lanceolate, deeply channelled, glabrous. _Peduncle_ up to 14 cm. long, terete, glabrous. _Raceme_ few to many-flowered, up to 6 cm. long. _Bracts_ 1 to 1·8 cm. long, ovate-acuminate, membranous, dry, partly sheathing the pedicels. _Pedicels_ 0·5 to 1 cm. long, cylindric, erect-spreading. _Perianth-segments_ 1·5 cm. long, oblong, inflexed obtuse and pubescent at the apex, white with a broad green 3-nerved band. _Stamens_ slightly shorter than the perianth-segments; filaments 2 mm. broad at the base; anthers 2 mm. long, oblong, versatile. _Ovary_ 5 mm. long, sessile; style subequalling the perianth-segments, sub-capitate and penicillate at the apex. _Fruit_ (immature) deeply and bluntly 3-lobed. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2941.) PLATE 194.--Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2, cross-section of ovary. F.P.S.A., 1925. [Illustration: 195.] PLATE 195. ATHRIXIA ELATA. _Basutoland, Cape Province, Natal, O.F.S., Transvaal._ COMPOSITAE. Tribe INULOIDEAE. ATHRIXIA, _Ker._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant_, vol. ii. p. 328. * * * * * =Athrixia elata=, _Sond. in Linn._ vol. xxiii. p. 67; _Fl. Cap._ vol. iii. p. 292. * * * * * The plant figured on the accompanying Plate is a much-branched shrub almost 1 m. high, and may be found in flower on the hills surrounding Pretoria during the month of August. It grows in masses in certain localities and flowers very profusely; if brought under cultivation it could no doubt be much improved so as to make it a desirable garden plant. _Athrixia elata_ is found on the Drakensberg in Natal, in Basutoland, the eastern Free State and on the spurs of the Drakensberg in the northern Transvaal, but extends westwards in the Transvaal as far as Rustenburg. The travellers Burke and Zeyher collected specimens almost 100 years ago on the Magaliesberg, and Cooper also came across the plant in his journey through Basutoland in 1861. We are indebted to Mr. C. A. Smith, B.Sc., for the specimens from which our Plate was prepared.