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been eaten or broken off so that it is impossible to state the length 
attained by them. The flowers are among the most beautiful of the 
Moraeeae known to me, but whether they are normally as large and 
fine as they were in the spring of 1911, which was remarkable for the 
luxuriant growth of the flora round Prince Albert, I have not been 
able to ascertain. 
Watsonia Galpinii, L. Bolus (Irideae-Ixieae), ab omnibus ceteris sectionis 
“ Eu-Watsonia ” habitu graciliore, valvae spathis minoribus, perianthii 
tubo breviore, et segmentis pro ratione longioribus distinguitur. 
Cormus depresso-globosus, basi obliquus, 2 cm. diam., radices 
“ancorales” plurimas emittens, his turn apicem versus in radiculas 
fibrosas ramosis, tunicis crebre nervosis atro-brunneis; caulis erectus, 
e basi ramosus, ad 75 cm. altus; folia radicalia 4 — 8, adscendentia vel 
fere erecta, linearia, acute acuminata, cum omnibus partibus, glaber- 
rima, crebre tenuiterque nervosa, nervo medio marginibusque tantum 
subprominentibus, ad 35 cm. longa, 1 — 1-5 cm. lata; pedunculus 5 cm. 
longus; spica simplex vel ramosa, floribus laete rubris, valvae spathae 
omnino herbaceae vel apice vero submembranaceae, laete virides, 
apicem versus purpurascentes, exteriore lanceolata, setaceo-acuminata, 
infima 3-2 cm., suprema 0-6 cm. longa, intermediis 1-5 — 2 cm. longis, 
interiore ovata vel late ovata acuminata, 0-8 — 1-4 cm. longa; perianthii 
tubus 2 cm. longus, dimidio inferiore fere stricto, filiformi, vix 0-15 cm. 
diam., dimidio superiore infundibuliformi, apice 0-7'Cm. diam., seg- 
mentis patentibus, 1*5 cm. longis, exterioribus suboblongis subacutis, 
minute apiculatis, ad 0-8 cm. latis, interioribus oblongo-obovatis, 
1 cm. latis; stamina fere ad apicem segmentorum attingentia, antheris 
0-9 cm. longis, albidis, fissuris purpureis, polline albido; ovarium 
subobconicum, circa 0-5 cm. longum, stylo, cum ramis primariis 0-9 cm. 
longis, 2-9 cm. longo, stigmatibus ipsis circa 0-2 cm. longis; capsula 
obconica, 1 cm. longa. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; river-edge, Lottering 
Bush, Zitzikama, circa 500 ft., fl. Sept., E. E. Galpin, 4698; Knysna, 
A. V. Duthie. Flowered in March, 1919, at the National Botanic Gar- 
dens, Kirstenbosch (No. - 2 ^). 
Distinguished from the rest of the section “Eu-Watsonia by the 
more slender habit, the smaller spathe-valves, the shorter perianth- 
tube and relatively longer segments. 
Antholyza Watsonius, L. Bolus, nov. comb. = Gladiolus Watsonius, Thunb. 
Antholyza Watsoniana, Pax in Engl, and Prantl, Natiirl. Pflanzenf. ix, 
5, 156 (1888), sphalm. 
Antholyza Gawleri, L. Bolus, nov. comb. = Antholyza revoluta, 
Burm. (var. (3, Gawleri, Baker; Gladiolus Gawleri, Klatt). 
