1 H 
F. E. Weiss and R . tf. Yapp. 
may act as Darbishire 1 has suggested in the case of the latter as 
“ paraheliodes.” 
Spirally-Twisted Leaves. 
Another noticeable feature was the spiral twisting which the 
linear leaves of many Monocotyledons (Liliaceae, etc.) appeared to 
have undergone. Sometimes each leaf was twisted into a spiral 
independently of its fellows, e.g.. Bulbine sp. (Text-fig. 23) 2 , while in 
other cases all the leaves of a plant seemed to have been twisted 
simultaneously. 
We noticed a similar, though less well-marked, tendency to 
spiral twists in the leaves of several plants on Table Mountain, in 
the Cape Peninsula; notably in a grass and in the linear leaf- 
segments of a species of Oxalis. 
Scent, etc., of Flowers. 
The great majority of the flowers which we saw at Matjesfontein, 
had a strong and sweet perfume. 
With regard to the colours of the flowers in bloom in August, 
1 O. V. Darbishire. Loc. cit., p. 412. 
2 Cf. also plates 259 and 260 in Baker’s Monograph of the genus 
Gethyllis, Jour, of Botany, Vol. XXIII., 1885. 
