it in my Eastern Province peregrinations. ... Its colour 

 varies very much, from pale golden daffodil tint to pure white, 

 and is either with or without purplish stains on the outside of 

 the perianth-segments. Here, at the Hort. C.B.S., we paid 

 much attention to this lovely bulb, grew it year after year, 

 roguing out all the yellow and purple-stained individuals and 

 sowing the whitest. This is the ' Freesia refracta alba ' of 

 gardens." 



This note gives the origin of F. refracta var. alba, Baker, 

 Handb. Irid. p. 167, which should now be called F. Sparrmannii 

 var. alba, for it certainly is not the same as the true F. refracta, 

 and Thunberg's original name must be upheld. 



The plant here figured is doubtless the pale golden form 

 mentioned by MacOwan, and it differs from the yellow-flowered 

 F. ocanthospila by the very long slender part of its perianth- 

 tube. — N. E. Brown. 



Our illustration was made from specimens grown in the 

 Gardens of the Division of Botany from bulbs presented by 

 Mr. J. Shand, of Ladismith, Cape Province. 



Description : — Corm about 4 cm. long, 3 cm. in diameter, 

 produced into a short neck and densely covered with fibres. 

 Leaves basal, 6-8 cm. long, 5-1 cm. broad, acute, somewhat 

 sheathing at the base, glabrous. Peduncle 9*5 cm. long, with 

 the upper portion bent at a right angle. Spathe-valves 1 cm. 

 long, ovate, subacuminate, acute, membranous in the upper 

 portion. Perianth-tube 5 2 cm. long, 12 cm. in diameter above, 

 campanulate in the upper portion and becoming slenderly 

 tubular in the lower half, yellow; lobes 1/2 cm. long, 1 cm. 

 broad, ovate-oblong, or subrotund, rounded above, yellow. 

 Style 5-6 cm. long, filiform, 6-lobed ; lobes 5 mm. long, linear, 

 somewhat spathulate at the apex. — E. Percy Phillips. 



Plate 11. — Fig. 1, anther; Fig. 2, style arms. 

 F.P.S.A., 1921. 



