Habitat: Natal ; at edges and in bush from the coast to the Drakensberg. 



In his report on Natal Forests, Mr. Fourcade says of this plant, "Bark 

 yellow-brown, thin, wrinkled, wood heavy, hard, compact ; medullary rays very 

 fine and close, intersected by numerous short ob ique patches of white tissue, 

 pores small, not numerous, irregularly distributed ; colour light brown : not used. 

 Native name Isipane. 



Fig. 1 , Branches with leaves and flowers, about natural size ; 2, Calyx and 

 Stamens, petals removed; 3, Section through staminal tube, showing Ovary and 

 Style. Petals, (a) Standard; (b) Wing; (c) Keel; 4, Stamen; all variously 

 enlarged. 



PLATE 5. 



CYRTANTHUS ANGUSTIFOLIUS, Ait. 

 Natural Order AMAHYLLIDE.B. 



Bulb ovoid, 1^ to 2 inches in diameter, tunics brown, membranous. Leaves 

 2 to 3, contemporary with, or appearing after the flower, linear, green, straight, 

 1 to 1 ^ feet long. Peduncle as long, or longer than the leaves, hollow, lengthening 

 in fruit, at first bright scarlet, afterwards dull green. Umbel 4 to 10 flowered 

 spathe valves 2, lanceolate, lined, scarious, 1^ to 2 inches long, pedicels 1 to 1^ 

 inches long. Perianth scarlet, 2 to 3 inches long, tube trumpet shaped, curved, 

 gradually widening to throat, expanding to 1 inch or more, segments 6, oblong, 

 the three outer acuminate, with a small tuft of minute white hairs nnder the apex, 

 the three inner blunt, with smaller tuft of hairs ; 6 lines long, 3 lines wide. 

 Stamens 6, one opposite each perianth lobe, inserted just below the throat, and a 

 little shorter than the lobes ; anthers oblong, yellow, Style as long or a little 

 longer than the stamens. Stigma 3 lobed, lobes recurved. Ovary 3 celled, 3 

 lobed, with numerous superposed ovules. Seeds flattened, black. 



Habitat: NATAL: On grassy hills all over the colony. 



Known in Natal as the " Fire Lily," and very conspicuous on the hills in the 

 spring months, commonly appearing after the grass has been burnt off. It is 

 found all over the colony in open ground, from the coast to the Drakensberg, and 

 also in the Cape Colony. It was introduced into cultivation in England, flowered 

 there in 1774, and was figured in the Botanical Magazine in 1794, tab 271. The 

 genus contains 25 species, one being from Tropical, and all the rest from South 

 Africa. 



Fig. 1, plant about natural size; 2, Corolla laid open; 3aand3b, tips of outer 

 and inner perianth lobes ; 4, Stamens; 5, Section of ovary, with style and stigma; 

 all enlarged. 



PLATE 6. 



BKEBEKGIA MEYBRI, Presl. 

 Natural Order 



A large tree, trunk reaching up to 10 feet in circumference, with brownish- 

 grey bark. Branches spreading, slightly drooping, bark grey like the trunk. 

 Leaves unequally pinnate, borne on ends of the branches, and articulated to them, 

 10 to 14 inches long, including petiole ; petiole terete, or slightly flattened above ; 

 leaflets opposite, in 4 or 5 pairs, glabrous, lighter beneath, ovate, entire, very acute, 



