Clivia

The English naturalist William J. Burchell is recorded as having been the first person to make a scientific collection of a Clivia in the wild, which he did near the mouth of the Great Fish River in the Eastern Cape in September 1815.
During the early 1820s, the intrepid Kew gardener and botanical collector, James Bowie, gathered plants of this species, a pendulous-flowered clivia, in the same area of the Eastern Cape and sent them to England.
In October 1828, Kew botanist and horticulturist John Lindley described Clivia nobilis and named it after Lady Charlotte Florentine Clive, Duchess of Northumberland. Lady Clive had been cultivating many of Bowie's plants in her conservatory at Syon House, just over the Thames from Kew. One of South Africa's showiest bulbous plants, Clivia has been in cultivation in England for a century and a half. During the Victorian era it became a very popular indoor plant.