of Barberton in the Transvaal, and flowered in the Tem- 
perate House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in September, 
1894, when about a foot high. 
Descer.—A very slender straggling shrub, three to five 
ft. high, with flexuous branches, branchlets, petioles, 
nerves of leaf beneath and inflorescence sparsely hispidulous. 
Leaves two to three inches long, shortly petioled, ovate, 
acuminate, bright green above, paler beneath, margins cilio- 
late ; nerves four or five pairs, sunk above, reddish beneath ; 
petiole one-third to half an inch long, reddish. Macemes 
axillary, erect, three to four inches long, rachis hispidulous ; 
pedicels one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch long, of lower 
flowers decurved ; bracts as long as the pedicels or longer, 
ovate-lanceolate, green, caducous. Flowers nearly an inch 
across the expanded wings, pale rose-lilac. Sepals five, 
three outer about half the length of the wings, broadly 
ovate, cymbiform, obtuse, ciliolate, the dorsal much the 
largest ; wings obovate. Oorolla shorter than the wings; 
two lateral lobes oblong, obtuse, rather shorter than the 
keel, which is two-lobed, the lobes truncate and plicate. 
Upper third of style upcurved, trumpet-shaped, tip truncate, 
with a punctiform stigma in front. Young capsule nearly 
orbicular, very narrowly winged.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, corolla with one petal removed; 3, top of filament and 
anther; 4, ovary and disk :—A/l en larged. 
