them are scarlet, others yellow, and some dull orange. The 

 scent of the flowers is unpleasant, somewhat recalling that 

 of the flowers of Rhus. 



The home of this remarkable plant was unknown to 

 botanists until re-discovered in 1920. It grows in heavy red 

 clay soil on the farm Fransplaas, about 40 miles north of 

 Sutherland, and flowers in September. 



The genus was named by Dr. Lindley in honour of Dr. 

 Charles Daubeny, Professor of Botany at Oxford, " whose 

 interesting researches in vegetable Chemistry have materially 

 conduced to improve our knowledge of the physiology of 

 plants." 



Specimens are preserved in the National Herbarium, 

 Pretoria (Herb. No. 1458). 



Desceiption : — An acaulescent herbaceous plant. Bulb 

 1*6 cm. long, 1*9 cm. in diameter, covered with brown mem- 

 branous tunics with numerous fibrous roots from the base. 

 Leaves 2, flat, 5-8 cm. long, 4-5 cm. broad, ovate, subacumi- 

 nate, obtuse, narrowed and clasping at the base, many- 

 nerved, with margins narrowly membranous. Capitulum 

 about 10-flowered, with a peduncle 3 cm. long, clasped by 

 the leaf base and beneath the soil. Outer bracts white, mem- 

 branous, 2*7 cm. long, 1*6 cm. broad, oblong; inner bracts 

 2*5 cm. long, 9 mm. broad, obovate-spathulate, entire, clasping 

 the perianth-tube. Pedicels 5 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, com- 

 pressed, fleshy. The outer flowers 2-lipped and differently 

 shaped from the inner. Perianth-tube of outer flowers 2 cm. 

 long, 4 mm. in diameter, somewhat compressed ; lobes of 

 lower lip 2*6 cm. long; the middle lobe 1*4 cm. broad; the 

 2 side lobes 1 cm. broad ; all obovate-oblong, obtuse ; lobes of 

 upper lip 3 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, linear. Perianth-lobes of 

 inner flowers 3-6 mm. long, all linear or lanceolate. Stamens 

 inserted at different levels ; filaments 3-6 mm. long, terete, 

 fleshy, tapering upwards ; anthers 2 mm. long, oblong. Ovary 

 7 mm. long, 2*5 mm. in diameter, narrowly ellipsoid, glabrous ; 

 style 2*5 cm. long, terete, with 3 minute stigmas at the apex. 



Plate 71. — Fig. 1, plant viewed from above ; Fig. 2, plant, side view ; 

 Fig. 3, a single flower ; Fig. 4, side view of flower of outer whorl ; Fig. 5, 

 flower from middle of inflorescence ; Fig. 6, the same flower viewed from 

 above, showing the stamens and style ; Fig. 7, bract. 



F.P.S.A., 1922. 



