A he. 30 



2/) (.'^ll). A. ohscura, Mill, — There is a specimen of this plant, 

 probably derived from our neighbourhood, grown in the Grahams- 

 town Botanic Gardens. It agrees well with Baker's description in 

 the Flora Capensis, except that its perianth-tube is very small. 

 This is also the case with A. pirfa. Thunb. (see De Candolle, 

 " Plantes Grasses," t97), which Baker i-egards as a synonym of A. 

 obsciira, Mill. It flowers in Grahamstown in November. 



2G (314). A. grandidcntata, Salm-Dyck. — A plant which I 

 refer to this species was received by me from its native habitat 

 some years ago, but I regret to say I cannot now find a record of 

 where it came from. It may have come from Kimberley. The 

 prickles on the margins of the leaves and the flowers are some- 

 what smaller than in the type. It flowers in Grahamstown in 

 October. 



27 (315). A. Greem'u Bak. — I owe specimens of this very hand- 

 some plant to Dr. MacOwan, F.L.S., who states that it comes from 

 Natal. It flowers in Grahamstown in March and April. Its 

 inflorescence reaches sometimes a height of 5 feet. 



27a. A.Grahami, Schonl. n. sp. (Plate III, fig. 3). Stem, as far 

 as known, about 45 cm. high ; leaves comparatively thin, about 

 50 in a dense rosette, dark green with a narrow cartil-iginous 

 white margin, upper surface channelled, towards the tip 

 subplicate and subcarinate, obs^irely lineate, not spotted, lower 

 surface lineate, and with interrupted rows of elojigated whitish 

 spots, lanceolate, or ensiform, up to GO cm. long and 10 cm. 

 wide at the base, suberect, recurved in the upper half ; 

 marginal prickles deltoid-lanceolate, whitish with brown 

 tips, about 3 mm. long, at irregular intervals, more closely set 

 at the base and towards the t^p^ ^^p to 3 cm. distant in the 

 centre, almost at right angles to the margin in the lower 

 portion of the leaf, curved forward or even hooked in the upper 

 portion : peduncle GO-90 cm. high, branched in the upper portion, 

 branches laterally slightly compressed, deep green, with scattered 

 empty ovato-cuspidate bracts ; flowers in elongating racemes, 

 numerous, closely set, slightly drooping when open, bracts whitish 

 with pinkish base, subscarious, 7-nerved, ovato-cuspidate, the 

 lowest nearly 2*5 cm. long, the upper slightly smaller ; pedicels 

 erecto-patent, the lower 5 cm. long, the upper gradually smaller ; 

 perianth 3* 75 to 4* 25 cm. long, outer petals red with brownish- 



