several of its congeners it is almost scentless. It was dis- 

 covered by Mr. Bolus on the dry, rocky hills of Ryneveld's 

 Pass, near Grraaff Eeinet, in South Africa, at an altitude of 

 2700 ft., where it is tolerably common, and flowers in April. 

 Our drawing was made from a plant sent to Kew by Mr. 

 Bolus, which flowered in August, 1875. 



Descr. Plant dwarf and ceespitose, glabrous. Stems 

 two to three inches long, three-quarters to one inch thick, 

 four- to five-angled ; angles acute, acutely toothed. Flowers in 

 four- to six-flowered sessile cymes, arising from about the middle 

 or towards the base of the younger branches. Pedicels four to 

 six lines long. Calyx five-parted ; segments lanceolate-subu- 

 late acute, two to three lines long. Carolla one and a quarter 

 inches in diameter, outside smooth, pale green, often tinged 

 with purplish on the tube, the lobes darker, faintly spotted 

 with minute purplish spots, and marked with three strong 

 and two faint nerves or ribs ; inside, the tube excepted, 

 minutely papillate, the papillae with a minute purple-red 

 spot at the apex, some of those in the throat minutely bristle- 

 pointed, otherwise quite glabrous, pale sulphur- yellow, 

 covered with small blood-red spots ; tube pinkish white, spotted 

 with blood-red, the bottom entirely blood-red, smooth and 

 shining; tube three lines deep, slightly constricted at the 

 mouth, limb very spreading, the lobes deltoid acuminate 

 recurving. Outer corona velvet-black, 5-lobed, lobes rectan- 

 gular, emarginate. Inner corona of five lobes, purplish, 

 spotted in the upper part with yellowish, their apices very 

 shortly produced, not more than half a line long. — N. E. 

 Brown. 



Fig. 1, Corona seen from above ; 2, corona, side view ; 3, anther and lobe of 

 inner corona, detached:— all enlarged 7 diameters. 



