132 Liliaceae novae Austro-africanae a S. Schönland descriptae. 



6_7 cm broad low down and 1 cm thick, slightly incurved, upper sur- 

 face nearly flat, dark shining green. with numerous elongated whitish 

 spots which, especially in the lower portion, are united into a number of 

 irregulär transverse bands, lower surface unspotted, light green, with a 

 few small piickles on the outer surface near the tip, marginal prickles 

 very pointed, usually quite straight. brown, separated by rounded fairly 

 regulär interspaces, which are 7 — 8 mm long. Inflorescence 60—120 cm 

 high, usually branched. Peduncle glaucous, subterete. bearing a number 

 of ovate-lanceolate bracts in the axils of which buds are present, when 

 the terminal raceme is in flower. Raceme moderately dense, usually 

 about 15 cm long, bracts deltoid-acuminate, lower about 15 mm long, 

 upper gradually smaller. Pedicels usually nearly twice the length of the 

 bracts, but some (in the same raceme) only about % their length. Plower- 

 buds upright, whitish, with 6 broad longitudinal stripes which are dark- 

 green above and become pale-reddish lower down. Open flowers drooping, 

 3 cm long; perianth curved, strongly constricted above the base, tube 

 a little over half the length of the perianth; outer petals, both inside and 

 outside, whitish, with broad pale-red median line, inner petals similarly 

 coloured on the outside, but with yellow margin above and on the inside 

 yellow with reddish median line; stamens and style slightly exserted. 

 filaments yellow, anthers yellowish on the inside, reddish-brown outside. 

 In flower at Mapellapoede, N. E. Kalahari (18 miles North of Serowe 

 on the road to Lake N'Gami), Schönland, Aug. 29 th, 1903. 



3. Aloe bamangwatensis Schönl, 1. c, p. 122. 



Acaulescent, branching only Underground. Leaves about 12 in a dense 

 rosette, ascending and gently recurved at the tip, narrow lanceolate, fre- 

 quently subensiform in the upper third, 4 cm broad low down, 30 — 35 cm 

 long (in cultivated specimens, about -/■, this length in wild ones), c. 1,5 cm 

 thick in the centre, nearly flat on the inner surface, strongly convex on 

 the outer, on both surfaces dark green with large oblong whitish spots, 

 which are, especially in the lower portion, more or less confluent and 

 form irregulär transverse bands which are more numerous on the outer 

 than on the inner surface and vary considerably in different individuals. 

 margin spiny throughout, and a few small spines also in the median 

 line on the outer surface near the tip. marginal prickles deltoid-acuminate, 

 sometimes slightly curved, 2 — 4 mm long, white or (in older leaves) brown 

 at the tip, separated by slightly rounded interspaces of variable length 

 (3 — 13 mm). Inflorescence subterminal, a lax panicle 140 — 150 cm high, 

 unbranched part of the peduncle without empty bracts, 40 — 50 cm long 

 subterete, subglaucous, bearing at wide intervals 4 or 5 branches about 

 38 cm long with racemes about 24 cm long, the bract bearing the first 

 lateral raceme c. 4 cm long, sometimes with a few marginal and terminal 

 prickles near the tip, the upper smaller and quite smooth. all lanceolate, 

 pale green, longitudinally striate, clasping, floriferous bracts lanceolate- 

 cuspidate c. 12 mm long. Flowers very laxly but irregularly distributed, 

 patent or cernuous, pedicels 7 — 9 mm long, those of the upper flowers 



