flower are always erect with the flowers drooping, they 

 vary from two to three inches long in dwarf compact leaved 

 native specimens, to eight and ten inches in the cultivated, 

 and the flowers vary from one to nearly three inches in 

 diameter, and in colour from white to pink-purple. The 

 sepals expand widely before falling off. 



According to the " Flora Capensis " G. Stanleyi was 

 discovered by Miss Owen, in Zululand, in 1840. It was 

 refound in about 1842 by Mr. Burke, a collector sent out 

 to South Africa under the joint auspices of the Royal 

 Gardens of Kew and the Lord Derby (grandfather of the 

 present Earl), whose gardens and menagerie at Knowsley 

 were famous nearly half a century ago, but of which the 

 menagerie was broken up at his death, and the gardens 

 were no longer kept up on a botanical footing. Mr. Burke 

 foundthe plant at Macalisberg, in about the centre of 

 what is now the Transvaal, and it has been collected in 

 the same region and in Natal by the late Mr. Sanderson, 

 by Mr. Nelson, and Dr. A. Rehmann. 



The specimen here figured was raised from seed sent to 

 Kew by Mr. B. E. Galpin, of Barbertown in the Transvaal. 

 Plants of it flowered freely in the summer both in an open 

 sunny border and in the greenhouse at Kew, and ripened 

 seed. The roots, Mr. Watson informs me, are flesh y like 

 those of G. vitalba.—J. I). H. 



Fig. 1 and 2, stamens ; 3, carpel -.—both enlarged. 



