Morley Mission Station in the Transkei District, by Mr. 
Bowker. It is allied perhaps most nearly to 0. africana , (Bot. 
Reg. t. 626). 
Descb. Glabrous or hairy on the stem. Boots took tuberous, * 
fleshy, sending down stout cylii^dric fibres. Stem simple or 
branched from the very base, slender at first prostate, then 
ascending, six inches or a foot or more high, probably at 
times climbing, cylindric, lower nerves swollen. Leaves one 
to two inches long, opposite, sessile or very shortly petioled, 
ovate-lanceolated, acuminate, very fleshy, keeled below, bright 
green with white nerves. Flowers in axillary few-flowered 
racemes ; peduncle slender, shorter than the leaves ; bracts 
subulate ; pedicels quarter to half inch long, swollen at the 
apex. Calyx segments between subulate and acicular, spread- 
ing. Corolla nearly two inches long ; tube slightly curved, 
globose at the very base, then narrowly funnel-shaped, 
glabrous, pale pink, throat not much dilated ; limb-segments 
triangular at the base, then narrowed into filiform processes 
which are first incurved, then curved slightly outwards with 
the tips horizontally incurved and cohering ; the segments are 
ciliated about the middle, are pale green externally, and in- 
ternally reticulated with dark purple. Outer corona annular, 
10 -toothed ; inner with rounded lobes. — J. 1). H . 
Fig. 1. Flower and pedicel ; 2, corona ; 3, pollen masses and candicle : — all 
enlarged. 
