is the Eastern Region of South Africa, where on the Bazeia 
mountain and near Pietermaritzburg it attains altitudes of 
nearly 3,000 feet above sea-level. ‘The original description 
was based upon a plant which flowered at Kew in 1870; 
since then it has been met with in various localities between 
the Transkei and Zululand. The specimen which supplied 
the material for our figure is one which was collected in 
Tembuland by Canon G. E. Mason, Principal of St. Bede’s 
College at Umtata, and by his sister, Miss M. H. Mason, 
_ and was given by them to the Cambridge Botanic Garden, 
where it has flowered as freely as the species does at Kew. 
The most nearly allied species, the well-known G. candicans, 
occurs in Natal, the Orange River Colony and Aliwal 
North ; it is readily distinguished from our plant by the 
characters already enumerated, and by its larger racemes 
with more numerous flowers, 
Descriprion.—Herb; bulb globose, tunicate. Leaves 
4-6, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, sheathing at the base, 
1} ft. long, 14 in. wide, glabrous except for the very 
minutely puberulous margins, Scape longer than the leaves, 
cylindric, glabrous; pedicels somewhat spreading, 14 in. 
long, when in fruit erect, up to 3 in. long; bracts ovate, 
acuminate, membranous, 1} in. long, } in. wide; flowers 
nodding, rather remote. Perianth subcampanuliform ; tube 
oblong, $ in. long, over 1 in, wide, green outside; lobes 
somewhat spreading, ovate, obtuse, 2 in. long, } in. wide, 
whitish. Stamens inserted some way above the perianth- 
base ; filaments subulate from a dilated base, nearly 2 in, 
long ; anthers oblong, obtuse, deep-cordate at the base, 4 in, 
long. Ovary oblong, over + in. long, green; style 
cylindric, 2 in, long ; stigma minute, 3-lobed, 
Figs. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, stigma :—all enlarged, 
