magnificent Heaths, a Phoenix, different from P. reclinata, and 

 some fine Orchidese, all of which will no doubt be soon intro- 

 duced into England through the zeal of the able superin- 

 tendent of the Natal Botanic Gardens. 



Descr. — Probably a small shrub. Stem stiff, erect, green, 

 almost terete, and as well as the leaves above clothed with 

 minute appressed hairs. Leaves deep green, recurved, two to 

 three inches long by half to one inch broad, narrowly ovate or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, subacute, quite entire, nerves faint ; petiole 

 a quarter to half an inch long. Flowers few, solitary in the 

 uppermost axils, shortly peduncled. Bracts subulate, one- 

 third to half an inch long, placed half way up the peduncle. 

 Outer sepals one inch long and nearly as broad, broadly ovate- 

 cordate, obtuse, strongly palmately nerved, coriaceous, 

 minutely hairy like the leaves, margins incurved ; inner sepals 

 lanceolate-subulate, much shorter than the outer, pubescent 

 on both surfaces, ciliate. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, shorter 

 than the outer sepals ; limb two inches diameter, purple, flat ; 

 three larger lobes orbicular, two smaller ovate obtuse emargi- 

 nate, all with a dark purple blotch above the claw, that on the 

 lower segment edged with a white line. Anthers nearly white. 

 Sfaminodes three, middle broad, lateral subulate. Ovary 

 pubescent ; stigma linear. — J. B. H. 



Fig. 1, Base of corolla-tube with stamens and staminodes ; 2, outer sepals ; 

 3, inner ditto, disk and ovary ; 4, disk and ovary : — all magnified. 



