Tulbagh, alt. 1200 ft. ‘‘rarissima.’” Ecklon gives also 
the county of Worcester, which adjoins Tulbagh on the 
S.E., as ahabitat. No others are recorded. Prof. Macowan 
has sent to Kew dried specimens of a white-flowered 
variety, with the leaves rather more acutely serrated. 
The plant here figured was raised from seeds sent in 
1891 to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Prof. Macowan, 
Government Botanist at Capetown, and which flowered 
in a cool greenhouse in June, 1894. Mr. Watson in- 
forms me that good plants of it were growing in the 
open air during the summer months, but that they would 
not survive the cold of an English winter. 
Descr.—A branching, leafy shrub, attaining seven feet 
in height, all parts except the interior of the corolla pubes- 
cent. Leaves alternate, densely subverticillatedly crowded, 
3-4 inches long, by about one-third of an inch broad; 
sessile, very narrowly oblanceolate, acute, serrate beyond 
the middle, greyish green above, paler beneath; nerves 
short, slender, spreading. Flowers 1-3, on short axillary 
peduncles. Calyx three-quarters of an inch long, glandular- 
pubescent, obscurely 2-lipped, deeply 3-lobed, with the 
posticous (or upper lip) broadest, and 3-fid at the tip; the 
others lanceolate, acute, all valvate. Corolla sulphur- 
coloured, glandular-pubescent externally ; tube gibbously 
inflated, two-thirds of an inch long; limb one and a half 
inch broad, 2-lipped, 5-lobed; lobes orbicular-obovate, 
nearly equal; two upper erect, three lower spreading; 
mouth transversely oblong. Stamens two, included, in- 
serted at the very base of the corolla-tube, with two oF 
three interposed setiform staminodes; filaments slender, 
glabrous, incurved; anthers didymous. Ovary oblong; 
glandular-pubescent; style filiform, stigma purple. Cap- 
sule ovoid, acute, septicidal, many-seeded. Seeds curved, 
testa lax.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx laid open, showing the two lateral lobes and one of the three 
connate dorsal lobes; 2, base of corolla, stamen, and staminodes from the 
specimen figured; both enlarged; 3, the same from native specimen :— 
enlarged. 
