Spec. novas in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 3. ser, XXX VIII (1905), descriptas. 177 
3 dark veins (youngest flowers aborting and their bracts forming a 
terminal tuft); lowest pedicels 3 centimetres long, upper gradually smaller. 
Perianth almost cylindrical except in the uppermost portion, which is 
sharply turned upwards, nearly 3 centimetres long, tube of corolla about 
5 millimetres long; outer petals red with 3 darker nerves which radiate 
from the apex, otherwise apex nearly white; inner petals with a distinct 
keel which is greenish near the apex, reddish lower down and with 
almost white wings; filaments, especially the outer ones, rather broad, 
white; anthers pale terracotta coloured, ovary oblong, dark green, style 
white. Stamens and style exserted 6 to 8 millimetres long. 
The flowers are very decidedly proterandrous. When in the male 
state they are sharply deflexed; in the female state the pedicels straighten 
themselves out and the flowers point upwards, 
Received from Miss K. Orpen, S. Clair, Douglas, Griqualand 
West: Flowered in Grahamstown, August, 1905. 
28. Aloe decora Schönland, |. c., p. 386, fig. 146. 
Acaulescent; leaves 30—40 in a dense rosette, ovate-lanceolate, c. 
20 cm long the older c. 9 cm broad near the base, c. 3 cm thick, curved 
upwards, rather stiff, glaucous, slightly convex on the upper surface, 
strongly convex on the lower surface, unspotted, with two or more rows 
of spines on the lower surface near the apex, sometimes reaching below 
the middle, marginal spines usually almost at right angles to the margin, 
nearly straight, compressed, reddish brown rising from a whitish base, 
about 3 mm long, separated by nearly straight interspices, which are 
usually about 10 mm long. Inflorescence usually simple, subterminal, 
sometime bifurcated. Peduncle thick, laterally compressed and without 
bracts near the base; raceme densely multiflorous; bracts about 20 cm 
long, ovate-cuspidate, membranous, whitish with a few darker lines near 
the centre; flower buds subtrigonous, swollen near the apex (lower side 
more so than the upper), red with greenish tips; perianth about 3,3 cm 
long, slightly irregular, enlarging upwards and contracted at the mouth, 
tube a little over one half the length of the perianth, outer petals red 
with a lighter margin and green centre near the apex, inner whitish 
with a green keel and light brown near the apex, filaments and style 
yellowish white, anthers yellowish-red on the back, pale yellow on the 
face, stamens and style exserted 10—12 mm, flowers decidedly proterandrous. 
The flowers become much paler at the time the anthers discharge their 
pollen, and with the pale yellow filaments and style the older flowers 
present a fine contrast to the red flower-buds and younger flowers. The 
Opening of the flowers proceeds more quickly on the under side of the 
raceme, which is always bent downwards, 
My specimens were collected by Miss K. Orpen, S. Clair, Douglas, 
Griqualand West, and flowered in Grahamstown, Sept., 1905. Although 
a dwarf species, 4. decora has altogether the flowers of the ferox group. 
29. Cymbidium erythrostylum R. A. Rolfe, l. c., p. 427. 
Pseudo-bulbs ovate-oblong, over an inch long, several-leaved. Leaves 
: : 9 
Repertorium novarum specierum. 12 
