nearly white, with hardly a trace of pink. Yet when [ 
collected it the spathes were nearly of the colour of a 
Homére rose. It grew in crevices of granite rock, not 
in swamps.” 
For tubers of R. Rehmanni the Royal Gardens are 
indebted to Mr. Medley Wood, Curator of the Durban 
Gardens. These were received in 1893, and the plants 
flowered in the Cape House in October, 1894. The species 
differs from any hitherto described in foliage, colour, and 
the stipitate spadix. 
Descr.—Leaves ten to twelve inches long, narrowly 
elliptic, lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed into and much 
longer than the stout petiole, undulate and recurved, 
bright green on both surfaces, with scattered linear 
blotches of greenish white, parallel to the very numerous 
close-set slender nerves; midrib stout, pale grecn. 
Peduncles shorter than the leaves, green. Spathe about 
five inches long, erect; tube two inches long by about one 
in diameter, cylindric, pale green, white to the base 
within; limb lanceolate, undulate, acuminate, white, suf- 
fused with pink on the margins, upper third recurved, 
margins of mouth recurved. Syadix two inches long, its 
stipes rather more than half an inch, and as long as the 
female portion. Ovary glabrous, stigma sessile—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Base of spathe and spadix ; 2 oe : tical section 
of do.; 5, ovule:—All calvivad. x; 2, anther; 3, ovary ;.4, vertica 
