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NOVITATES AFRICANAE 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Piquetberg Div., “common on 
the mountain,” fl. Oct. — Nov., Mrs M. van der Spuy (Bolus Herbarium, 
No. 17838). Piquetberg, alt. 1500 — 3000 ft., Drege, 8439 (in Herb. Kew); 
Piquetberg, fl. Nov., Drege, 1573 (in Herb. Berlin). Tulbagh, Eclclon and 
Zeyher, 730 (in Herb. Yindob.). Clan william Div., Cedarbergen, Heuning 
Vlei, among rocks and sand, alt. 900 met., Sept. 1900, L. Diels, 904. 
Described from living specimens exhibited at the Cape Town Wild 
Flower Show by Mrs van der Spuy. These consisted of the inflorescence 
and the uppermost cauline leaf. The herbarium material quoted above 
also represents incomplete specimens. Dr Diels notes that the plant is 
| — 1 met. high, and that the flowers are scarlet-red. Produced leaves, 
detached from the stem, attain a width of 7 cm., and have remarkably 
thickened midrib and margins. The intermediate nerves are also pro- 
minent. The species is a very handsome and distinct one. The remarkably 
inflated sheaths of the upper cauline leaves are similar to those of W . 
tabularis, Mathews and L. Bolus, but otherwise there is no close affinity 
between the two species. 
W. stenosiphon, L. Bolus (Eu-Watsonia). Planta 20 — 45 cm. alta; cormus 
1-5 cm. diam., tunicis e fibris tenuibus compositis; folia radicalia 2 
(vaginis basalibus exceptis), polita, nervo medio subincrassato marginibus 
vix prominentibus, nervis intermediis obscurissimis, 12 — 37 cm. longis, 
4 — 5 mm. latis, caulina 3 — 4, infimum, cum vagina 3 — 5-5 cm. longa, 
7-5 — 28 cm. longum, axillo saepe bulbillifero, superiora fere omnino 
vaginantia, 16 — 2 cm. longa; spica simplex, sublaxe 3 — 7-fL, floribus 
suberectis distichis; bracteae ovato-oblongae obtusae herbaceae, superne 
per tertiam partem brunneae membranaceaeque, 1-9 — 1-4 cm. longae, 
bracteolis fere ad apicem coalitis, bracteis subaequilongis vel eis breviori- 
bus; perianthium aureo-testaceum, 5—5-5 cm. longum, tubo primum fere 
stricto, demum curvato, gracillimo, basi vix 1 mm., apice 4 mm. diam., 
sensim dilatato, 3-3 cm. longo, limbo ad 4-3 cm. diam., segmentis sat late 
patentibus, obtusis obovato-oblongis, exterioribus 1-2 cm., interioribus 
1-4 cm., latis; stamina arcuata, filamentis ultra tubum per 3 mm. exsertis, 
antheris atro-cyaneis, 7 mm. longis; stylus ad dimidium segmentorum 
attingens, ramis 6 mm., ramulis 3 mm., longis, ovario 4 mm. longo. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Caledon Div., exhibited at the 
Cape Town Wild Flower Show, Oct. 1921 (Bolus Herbarium, No. 15458). 
Hermanus, alt. 50 ft., fl. Oct. 23, 1897, E. E. Galpin, 4699. Onrust River, 
fl. Dec., J. Macdonald. 
Described from ample living material. There is no doubt that this 
species is closely allied to, and may be only a variety of, W. humilis, 
Miller, which is known only from the type-figure and description, but the 
leaves of the latter are shorter and much broader, the perianth-tube less 
