gloomier skies of Kew. The plant was discovered by the 

 late Dr. Sutherland near the Klip river, alt. three thousand 

 five hundred to four thousand five hundred feet, in 1858, 

 and has been subsequently collected by many travellers. 

 Ihe specimen here figured was raised from seeds sent to 

 the Royal Gardens in May, 1890, by Mr. E. E. Galpin, of 

 -barberton, Transvaal, and it flowered in the Cape House 

 m autumn of the same year. 



Descb. Roughly pubescent with stellate hairs. Boot- 

 stock woody, sending up ascending stems twelve to eighteen 

 inches high that are simple or branched from the base, and 

 are sparsely leafy throughout. Leaves one to one and a half 

 inch long, sessile or shortly petioled, linear- oblong, acute, 

 crenate-serrate or toothed, pale green; stipules minute 

 mear-subulate. Flowers solitary in the axils of the upper 

 eaves cernuous; pedicels slender, one-half to one inch 

 long ; bracts minute, setaceous. Calyx half an inch long, 



acZwl V T 8 / ke : led ' green ; l0bes Angular, acute or 

 sleXl l f\ tW1Ce , aS l0D S as tbe W with a 



the Zv™T< ?7 and ° rbiGular bri S ht brick ^ed Hmb, 

 oukte g »l 1 ^ reCUrVed * ***»"*• Bpathulate 



five wb ' d ^ S l V V r Tr0W n> acumin ate, ciliate. Ovary 

 Zt\ZTtt^ t^' , ° apsule one " half to nearly an 



SS2:s^ angles pectiJte * 



5, y *ng ltl:~i!uX S ge7 d **> *> d ° rSa1 ' and 4 > VeDtral ™ of stamen ; 



