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Cape Province: South-Western Region; George Div., Beatrice Hops. 
George, F. A. Rogers, 3483; R. S. Adamson (National Botanic Gardens, 
No. fi). 
Described from living specimens which have flowered freely for several 
years in the National Botanic Gardens, Kirstenbosch, during January and 
February. The original plants were received from Mr Eustace Pillans. 
It is the most strikingly beautiful of all the Watsonias, the rich apricot- 
red colour of the perianth being brighter than that of W. Pillansii, and 
the flowers larger and more widely open. 
W. Schinzii, L. Bolus (Eu-Watsonia). Cormus non visus; planta 68*5 cm. 
alta; folia inferiora 4 producta, nervo medio marginibusque conspicue 
incrassatis, imperfecta, praeter tertium 41 cm. longum, cum vagina 
14 cm. longa, 1-6 cm. latum, folia superiora 2, imbricata, vagina sub- 
ventricosa, supremum bracteiforme, 3-7 — 4-8 cm. longum; spica simplex 
subdensa, ad 11-fl.; bracteae ovato-lanceolatae setaceo-acuminatae vel 
superiores acutae, 3-8 — 1-9 cm. longae, bracteolis acuminatis, ultra medium 
coalitis, demum fere omnino distinctis, ad 1-8 cm. longis; perianthium 
6-7 — 7-5 cm. longum, tubo parte superiore cylindrico, faucibus ad 0-7 cm. 
diam., segmentis oblongo-ellipticis obtusis, 2-5 — 3-1 cm. longis, exterioribus 
ad 1-1 cm., interioribus ad 1-4 cm., latis; stamina arcuata, dimidium 
segmentorum excedentia, antheris ca. 1-1 cm. longis; stylus staminibus ± 
aequilongus, stigmatibus ca. 0-2 — 0-3 cm. longis ; capsula non visa. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Table Mountain, near Cape 
Town, 1887, Dr Hans Schinz. 
Described from two dried specimens of which one comprises the in- 
florescence and 4 cauline leaves, and the other the inflorescence and 
6 cauline leaves, the third, fifth, and sixth of which are perfect. 
W. Ecklonii, L. Bolus (Eu-Watsonia). Planta 92 — 107 cm. alta; cormus cum 
vaginis basalibus ignotus ; folium radicale unicum visum productum, nervo 
medio marginibusque leviter prominentibus, nervis intermediis crebris, 
folia caulina 7 — 8, inferum ad 69 cm. longum, ad 3-4 cm. latum, superiora 
longe vaginantia, vaginis coalitis, 13 cm. longis vel ultra; inflorescentia 
26 cm. longa, 4 — 5-ramosa, parte terminali dense 18 — 21-fl., 16—20 cm. 
longa, floribus suberectis, demum patentibus, ramis brevibus, saepius 
2 — 3-fl. ; bracteae inferiores setaceo-acuminatae, superiores subacutae 
vel obtusae, 1-8 — 1-2 cm. longae; bracteolae omnino coalitae, inferiores 
bracteis parum breviores, superiores parum longiores; perianthium 
6 — 7-5 cm. longum, tubi parte cylindrica ca. 2 cm. longa, segmentis 
oblongo-ovalibus, apiculatis, 2-5 — 3 cm. longis, exterioribus ad 0-8, 
interioribus ad 1-1, cm. latis; stamina ad dimidium segmentorum attin- 
gentia vel parum ultra, antheris 1-3 cm. longis; stylus staminibus parum 
brevior, ramis 4 mm., ramulis vix 2 mm. longis. 
B. H. 
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