Morley Mission Station in the Transkei District, by Mr. 
Bowker. It isallied perhaps most nearly to @. africana, (Bot. 
Reg. t. 626). : 
Descr. Glabrous or hairy on the stem. Rootstock tuberous, 
fleshy, sending down stout cylindric fibres. Stem simple or 
branched from the very base, slender at first prostate, then 
ascending, six inches or a foot or more high, probably at 
times climbing, cylindric, lower nerves swollen. Leaves one 
to two inches long, opposite, sessile or very shortly petioled, 
ovate-lanceolated, acuminate, very fleshy, keeled below, bright 
green with white nerves. Flowers in axillary few-flowered 
racemes ; peduncle slender, shorter than the leaves; bracts 
subulate ; pedicels quarter to half inch long, swollen at the 
apex. Calyx segments between subulate and acicular, spread- 
ing. Corolla nearly two inches long; tube slightly curved, 
globose at the very base, then narrowly funnel-shaped, 
glabrous, pale pink, throat not much dilated; limb-segments 
triangular at the base, then narrowed into filiform processes 
which are first incurved, then curved slightly outwards with 
the tips horizontally incurved and cohering ; the segments are 
ciliated about the middle, are pale green externally, and in- 
ternally reticulated with dark purple. Ozer corona annular, 
10-toothed ; inner with rounded lobes—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower and pedicel; 2, corona ; 8, pollen masses and caudicle :—all 
enlarged. 
