394 MR. P. MACOWAN ON NEW CAPE PLANTS. 
G. Rochensis. Besides this, G. Bellendeni may be distinguished 
from G. Rochensis before flowering by the subglaucous stem and 
foliage. lt is covered with microscopic glandular prominences, 
which in drying collapse and are much less evident. I rely on 
the spathes, the absence of nectariferous pores, and the indu- 
ment as distinctive characters, rather than on the pellucid 
perianth-base, which is rather of the non-distinctive nature of a 
colour difference. I may be permitted to add that the figure of’ 
G. Rochensis quoted above (Bot. Mag. t. 598) is a caricature. 
The periauth forms a hemispheric cup, not a flat six-rayed star 
as represented. 
BABIANA MACRANTHA, MacOwan, n. sp.—B. cormo ovoideo, 
fibris persistentibus stipato, foliis bifariis, 2-3-pollicaribus, ob- 
longis, acutis, basi in petiolum oblique desinentibus, 5-costatis 
villosis; scapo vix spithameo pubescente, simplici vel rarius 
distachyo; spathis inequivalvibus, extus pubescentibus; valva 
exteriore oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, apice sphacellata, perigonii 
tubum superante, interiore profunde bipartito, segmentis dorso 
angulatis, margine late membranaceis; perianthio omnino re- 
gulari, late infundibuliformi, patente, sulphureo, ad fundum 
macula purpurea notato; filamentis stylum sequantibus; an- 
theris linearibus purpureis, stigmata superantibus; ovario ovoideo, 
villoso. 
Hab. In humidis circa stagna prope pagum Darling, in ditioue 
M almesbury, Caput Bone Spei, alt. c. 500 ped., Oct. 1887; 
Herb. Norm. Austr.- Afr. no. 811; MacOwan. 
Folia 2-3 poll. longa, 4-5 liu. lata, ad costas venasque iuter- 
medias villosa. Flos in genere maximus, diametro c. 2-pollicaris, 
segmentis obovatis, deorsum angustatis, exterioribus sub apice 
recurvo-mucronulatis. 
This fine Babiana appears to be very rare. 
