Liliaceae novae Austro-africanae a S. Schönland descriptae. lg ^ 



The hairs on the peduncle, pedicels, calyx and corolla are glutinous, 

 hence the narae. 



8. Gotyledon Bolusii Schönl. var. karrooensis Schönl., 1. c, p. 119. 



Differs from the type chiefly by its smaller calyx lobes which are 

 scarcely 1,5 mm long. 



Laingsburg, Dr. R. Marloth, no. 2519, Jul. 1902; flowered in Gra- 

 hamstown, March 1904. 



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



(Aus: Records of the Albany Museum, I [1904], pp. 120—124; 



[1905], pp. 283—295.) 



1. Aloe Peglerae Schönl., 1. c, p. 120. 



Acaulescent or with a very short stem. Leaves about 30 in a dense 

 rosette, glaucous. very stift", incurved, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, slightly 

 convex on the inner, a little more so on the outer suriace, outer leaves 

 about 12 cm long, 3 cm broad and 9 mm thick in the middle, marginal 

 spines very pointed, white with brown tips (becoming quite brown in the 

 older leaves), 3 — 4 mm long, straight or slightly curved separated by 

 straight inter-spaces which are 3 — 9 mm long, a series of prickles also 

 on the back in the median line of about one third of the upper portion 

 and a similar series on the back close to the left hand margin. In- 

 florescence about 24 cm high, unbranched, peduncle about 12 cm long, 

 provided with a number of empty broadly deltoid bracts, raceme very 

 dense, multiflowered; flowerbearing bracts deflexed lanceolate-acuminate, 

 about 18 mm long, membranous, whitish with reddish centre; flowerbuds 

 red, turning partly creamy when open. Perianth slightly curved, about 

 2,4 cm long, tube short, stamens about 4 cm long, exserted about 15 mm, 

 filaments yellow below, dark brown in the upper portion, anthers oblong, 

 yellow; ovary 9 mm long, style 3,7 cm long, exserted 1,5 cm, lower portion 

 yellowish, upper reddish-brown. 



Rocky hill. just outside Rustenburg, Transvaal, alt. 4100', Miss Alice 

 Pegler, no. 921, 15th Aug. 1903. 



This very distinct new species may be placed near A. longistyla Bak. 

 When sending it, Miss Pegler not inaptly compared its appearance to a 

 loose cabbage. 



2. Aloe Greatheadii Schönl., 1. c, p. 121. 



Caulescent. Trunk ascending 10 — 12 cm thick, up to 30 cm high. 

 Leaves in a terminal dense rosette, lanceolate, outer about 23 cm long, 



