bitter, which, as Lindley remarks, is most remarkable, even 
. among its bitter neighbours. I find that this property is 
not retained in the Herbarium specimens. Another curious 
remark concerning it is contained in a note by Burchell, 
the South African traveller, namely, that “the flowers 
expand in the Herbarium.” I suppose he means that they 
retain life after the death of the foliage. 
. This is the fourth species of Cape Chironia figured in 
this work, and is the handsomest of them all; the others 
are C. baccifera, Linn. (tab. 233), C. linoides, Linn. (tab. 
511), and C. frutescens, Linn. (tab. 37), to which C. de- 
cussata, Vent. (tab. 707), and C. angustifolia, Sims (tab. 
818), have been reduced as varieties, and together placed 
in another genus (Orphium, E. Mey.). The fact of all 
these appearing in the very early numbers of this Magazine, 
and none since, is evidence of the favour in which Cape 
plants were held in the beginning of the century, and their 
subsequent abandonment, together with the flue-heated 
houses in which they throve. The reintroduction of C. 
peduncularis is due to Mr. Watson, sub-curator of Kew, who 
collected seeds of it during a visit to Algoa Bay in 1887, 
from plants growing amongst grass in very wet sandy soil 
close to the sea-shore. It also grows far inland.— 
J. D. H, 
Fig. 1, Corolla laid open; 2, front, and 3, back view of stamens; 4, calyx and 
ovary :—all enlarged, : 
