down the same year, and no one guessed the family of plants 

 to which it belonged. In the following year a similar twi- 

 ning stem produced a few minute flower-buds, which were 

 sent to my friend the late Dr. Harvey, who identified them 

 with a plant of which he had dried specimens, collected on 

 the eastern frontier of the Cape district by Mrs. Barber, and 

 to which he had attached the manuscript name of Boiviea, 

 in honour of the late Mr. Bowie, formerly collector for the 

 Royal Gardens, Kew, and latterly superintendent of the late 

 Baron Ludwig's Garden at Cape Town, the old genus Boiviea 

 having been reduced to Aloe. Other living specimens have 

 since been received from Mrs. Barber and from Mr. Wilson 

 Saunders, F.R.S., collected by Cooper, and it is from one of 

 the latter that the accompanying drawing has been made. 



Descb. Wholly green, rather fleshy. Bulb as large as an 

 orange, green, the coats few, very thick, fleshy, with yellow 

 margins. Leaves 0, except a few scales at the apex of the 

 bulb. Flowering-stem or scape solitary, very slender, two to 

 four feet long, twining, excessively branched, the branches 

 intertwisted, repeatedly dichotomously divided, the branch- 

 lets curved, divaricating, terete, without flowers, Ilowerinq 

 peduncles at the upper part of the scape, on its axis or 

 branches, one to two inches long, slender, divaricating. 

 Flowers half to two-thirds of an inch in diameter. Perianth 

 six-cleft to the base ; segments linear or lanceolate-subulate, 

 with incurved tips. Stamens inserted at the base of the 

 ovary ; filaments slender, subulate ; anthers oblong. Ovary 

 three- celled, with several ovules in each cell ; style short ; 

 stigma capitate, three-lobed. Capsule membranous, oblong^ 

 three-valved. Seeds several, flattened, with a loose, black, 

 brilliant testa. — ./. I). II 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Ovary. 4.. Transverse section of ditto :— 

 all magnified. 



