For the following account of the introduction into 
Europe, and of the native country of Richardia Pentlandu 
I am indebted to the articles upon this plant by Mr 
Watson in the Gardener’s Chronicle cited above. He says, 
“This plant was introduced by Mr. Whyte, Pentland ' 
House, Lee, who flowered it in May, 1892, and exhibited 
it at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, when — 
it was awarded a First Class Certificate.’ Mr. Whyte 
wrote in June, 1892, “I did not import this plant, bub — 
about two years ago a friend gave me six tubers, and said : 
I should probably find a yellow-flowered one amongst — 
them. Two flowered last year, and were only of the 
ordinary type, the third is that which I have called 
h. Pentlandii, and I think there will be another of this, 0 
of the other three. In May, 1892, Mr. E. H. Galpit,— 
F.L.S., a resident of Barberton, in South Africa, paid 4 _ 
visit to Kew, and brought with him six tubers of a yellow — 
flowered Richardia, whcih had been presented to him by — 
a gentleman in the Transvaal, who obtained them from — 
a Staats artilleryman, who got them from a Basuto chief 
whilst on active service. One of those (that here figured) 
is now (May, 1894), in flower at Kew, and proves to be 
identical with Mr. Whyte’s R. Pentlandii. 4 
Descr.—Leaves a foot long, subsagittately ovate-cordate, _ 
caudate-acuminate, broadest across the rounded basal 
lobes, which are separated by a rounded sinus, dark green 
above, unspotted ; costa very stout; nerves slender F 
petiole two feet long, terete, quite glabrous, dark greet 
Pedunele longer than the leaves, dark green, quite glab- 
rous. Spathe five to six inches high; an inch to an inch 
and a half broad about the middle, and three to fou! 
inches across the broad mouth, loosely convolute for tw 
thirds of the height, then expanding into a broad, nearly 
horizontal limb, with recurved margins, and suddenly. 
narrowed into a recurved, Nbitate tip; outer surface 
canary-colrd., inner bright gamboge-yellow, and rugulosé; 
base within dark purple. Spadiz two inches long ; ovaries 
occupying a third of its length.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Base of spathe laid open and dix ; 2 hors: 8 All 
enlarged; 4, reduced view of wicks plant. SEN ey SI 
