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branches and branchlets, much shorter and thicker peduncles, narrower 
corolla, with much shorter segments, which are scarcely cordate 
at base. 
Described from dried and living specimens. Flowers cream, usually 
flushed with a purplish pink. Named in honour of Mr A. W. Goatcher, 
for long a resident at Ceres and keenly interested in the preservation 
of its beautiful flora. (PI. iv, c.) 
Klattia Stokoei, L. Guthrie {Irideae-Sisyrinchieae ) , K. parlitae valde affinis, 
sed foliis patentioribus latioribusque, perianthii tubo multo breviore, 
segmentis angustioribus, lamina rubra, capsula majore distinguitur. 
Suffruticosa glabra, ca. 0-6 met. alta; rami ancipites, reliquis folio- 
rum delapsorum conspicue notati; folia equitantia ascendentia, ad 
apices ramulorum aggregate, linearia, apicem versus angustata, acuta 
mucronata, rigida, crebre nervosa, nervis in vivo inconspicuis, superiora 
fere omnino rubra, 9 — 15 cm. longa, 0-8 — 1-4 cm. lata; flores in 
capitula terminalia aggregati, capitulis ca. 8-fl., spathatis, spathae 
foliis 2, saturate rubris, inaequalibus, exteriore 5-6 cm. longo, 2-5 cm. 
lato, interiore 2-3 cm. longo, 1-5 cm. lato, apice rotundatis, carinatis, 
carina apicem versus dilatata, excurrente; bracteae lanceolatae papy- 
raceae albae, 1-8 — 2-2 cm. longae, 0-4 cm. latae; perianthii tubus brevis- 
simus, ca. 0-15 cm. longus, 0-2 cm. diam., segmentis inter se inaequali- 
bus, 5-6 — 6-2 cm. longis, lamina lineari, ca. 1-6 cm. longa, in unguem 
filiformem gradatim attenuata ; stamina ad os tubi affixa, fere perianthio 
aequilonga, antheris sagittatis, 0-6 cm. longis; ovarium turbinatum 
rostratum, 0-3 cm. longum, 0-2 cm. diam., loculis 1 — 2-ovulatis; capsula 
1-3 cm. longa, rostra 0-2 cm. longa, valvis ad 0-25 cm. latis; semina 
linearia anteriore concava, posteriore 2-sulcata argentea, 0-8 cm. longa, 
0-2 cm. lata. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Caledon Div., Steenbraas 
River Valley, eastern mountain-slopes, among stones, fl. Jan. 1921, 
T. P. Stokoe (Bolus Herbarium, No. 16906). 
V ery closely allied to Klattia partita, Baker, but may be distinguished 
by the more spreading and broader leaves, much shorter perianth-tube, 
narrower perianth-segments with the blade red, and by the laigei 
capsule. 
Described from living material supplied by Mr T. P. Stokoe. 
Watsonia Pillansii, L. Bolus (§ Euwatsonia) [. Irideae-Ixieae ], W. Merianae 
affinis, sed caule saepissime simplice, spica densiore, vaginis, foliorum 
reductorum haud ventricosis, staminodiis adeuntibus, ceterisque 
differt. 
Erecta, omnino glabra, ad 2 met., saepius 1-25 met. alta, coimut 
depresse globosus; folia radicalia circa 4 5, linearia, ad api< mi atto 
