plant shown in that drawing is again without blossom, 
but the species was afterwards figured in Salm-Dyck’s 
monograph. Salm-Dyck obtained his plant in 1814 
from Vienna. Since then J/. nobile has been collected at 
the Gamka River, Prince Albert Division, Cape Colony, 
by Zeyher, and, according to Berger, it has also been 
met with by Marloth in the adjacent Beaufort West 
Division. Plants both of I. magnipunctatum and M. 
nobile were presented to Kew in 1916 by Mr. Cecil 
Hanbury, from the La Mortola collection, and the figure 
of the latter now given has been prepared from the 
La Mortola example, which agrees well in its essential 
characters with those of Bowie and Salm-Dyck. The 
differences between the two allied species are well shown 
by the examples of each now grown at Kew, where they 
thrive well and flower in summer in a green-house. 
Description.—Herb, small and stemless. Leaves 4-6, connate at the base, 
spreading or slightly recurved, oblong, rather blunt, thick, flattish above, slightly 
angled beneath, 1}-2} in. long, }-% in. wide, glaucescent, closely dotted with 
green spots. Flowers almost sessile, showy, 2-21 in. across. Peduncles nearly 
obsolete, thick, with two fleshy bracts resembling the leaves. Calyx nearly 
globose, about 3 in. long, 5-6-lobed; lobes lanceolate-oblong, rather blunt, 
fleshy. Petals several-seriate, linear, golden-yellow, 1-1} in. long. Stamens 
many ; anthers oblong. Ovary nearly globose, conical upwards, finely verrucose ; 
styles about 16, erect, subulate, slightly plumose on the face. 
Tas. 8814.—Fig. 1, stamen, seen from in front ; 2, the same, seen from behind ; 
3, apex of the ovary, with styles; 4, a stigma :—all enlarged. 
