six feet high, and two feet six inches through. In habit 
it is light and graceful, and it bears hard pruning without 
‘detriment to its appearance when it has made fresh 
growth. It succeeds very well in a cool greenhouse, _ 
growing in the usual mixture of half each of peat and loam 
with some sana. 
Like many others of the family to’ which it be ongs, — 
G. polystachya is remarkably heterostyled, since I find no 
fewer than three different lengths of style, accompanied 
by relative differences in the length of the permanent and 
deciduous parts of the calyx-tube, but apparently without 
a corresponding difference in the position of the anthers; — 
nor do these sexual modifications appear to correspond to- 
the different kinds of habit, which latter are perhaps local — 
or individual modifications of the plant, which is found 
distributed along the coast region of South Africa from 
Caledon Division eastward to Bathurst Division. The 
specimen figured is from a plant grown in Cambridge 
Botanic Garden, which was raised from seed obtained 
from Warsaw Botanic Garden, and communicated in 
March, 1904, by Mr. R. I. Lynch, who states that he 
made good use of this plant in the decorations for the 
King and Queen at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 
on the occasion-of the opening of the Botanical and other 
Laboratories on March Ist, 1904. The other two forms 
are also in cultivation, but are not so ornamental as that 
here pictured. 
Descr.—A shrub one to four feet high, pubescent on 
the branches with rather long adpressed hairs. Leaves 
alternate, usually crowded, sometimes scattered, spreading 
or ascending, and more or less imbricate, one and a half to 
six lines long, one-third to three-fourths of a line broad, 
lmear, acute, or subobtuse, keeled on the back, glabrous. 
Flowers in inyolucrate heads, terminating the branchlets, — 
which in the form figured are short and racemosely 
arranged along the main branches. JInvolucral bracts like — 
the leaves, but usually broader. Calye yellow, or some-— 
times red outside where exposed to the sun, thinly covered — 
with long adpressed hairs outside; tube four to six lines 
long, slightly funnel-shaped at the upper part; lobes one 
to one and a quarter line long, three-quarters to one line — 
broad, ovate or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or subacute. Petals — 
