Hill, near Pietermaritzborg, Natal, flowering 15th November, 
1851.” I must leave others to decide whether this plant should 
be placed among the Liliacee or Smilacee, or whether the two 
families are really distinct. It seems in habit almost to unite 
the Fritillary group, which it most resembles in general appear- 
ance, with the Convallaria-section in Smilacee, with which it 
agrees in the union of the sepals into one piece. The genus is 
named in compliment to its discoverer. 
Dzscr. Zubers small, somewhat globose, but two-lobed, and 
somewhat half-moon-shaped, throwing out a few fibres from below. 
Stem erect, a foot to a foot and a half high, simple, terete, herba- 
ceous, not much thicker than a crow’s-quill, leafy nearly from the 
base : lower Jeaves rather distant, upper ones approximate and al- 
most crowded, all of them sessile, scarcely sheathing, but rather 
amplexicaul, lanceolate, much and narrowly acuminate, erect, sub- 
distichous, upper ones almost secund, striated with parallel veins. 
From the axils of the superior leaves the flowers appear. Peduncle 
solitary, single-flowered, slender, almost capillary, about two 
inches long, curved downwards. ower orange-coloured, large 
for the size of the plant, shorter than the peduncle, drooping, 
subgloboso-campanulate, with six shallow furrows, so as to be 
obtusely six-angled ; the mouth somewhat contracted, six-toothed ; 
the base has six nectariferous cavities, constituting externally so 
many short, but distinct, incurved spurs. Stamens included, six, 
perigynous. i/aments rather longer than the ovary, filiformi- 
subulate. Anthers broad, oblong, inserted near the middle of 
back, introrse, two-celled, cells opening by longitudinal fissures. 
Ovary oblong-oval, obtusely trigonous, having three deep longi- 
tudinal furrows. Sfyle as long as the stamens. Stigmas three, 
nearly as long as the style. 
Fig. 1. Stamens and pistil. 2. Ovary cut through transversely :—magnified. 
