40 Allan f/ Museum Eccotrh. 



green tips, slightly glued to the inner to nearly htilf their length or 

 sometimes free, inner petals with whitish margin and a broad 

 red stripe in the centre, filaments bright yellow, anthers slightly 

 exserted when shedding their pollen, style bright yellow, 

 eventuallj' exserted about (J mm. It flowers in September. 



I have named this species in honour of F. Graham, Esq., CO. 

 and R.M., who takes a great interest in Natural History pursuits, 

 and to whom I owe a number of South African succulents. 



The specimen from which the description was taken, was noticed 

 by me in a private garden in Grahamstown, and is now in the 

 Grahamstown Botanic Gardens. I could not ascertain where it 

 came from. It is a very handsome species, its dark-green grace- 

 fully recurved leaves forming a fine contrast to the red flowers. 



30 (315). A. microstigma, Salm-Dyck, var. (Plate III, fig. 1). - 

 I first received this very fine plant from my friend, Mr. W. 

 Armstrong of Port Elizabeth, who collected it in the Addo bush, 

 where it forms a favorite food of the elephants, which still roam 

 about in the Addo bush in considerable numbers. I have since 

 seen numerous specimens procured by Mr. E. Tidmarsh, Curator 

 of the Grahamstown Botanic Gardens, and Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S., 

 has kindly confirmed my determination of this as of some other 

 species. With us it only forms an elongated stem when grown in 

 the shade. In the open it remains almost "stemless" and branches 

 freely from the l)ase. When grown in poor ground in the open 

 the ground-colour of the leaves is a rusty-red, which becomes 

 greener in better soil and quite green when grown in the shade. 



It flowers in June. When looking at an inflorescence in which 

 about half the flowers are open, one notices that the upper portion 

 is red, while the lower portion is yellow. Examining a bud 

 which is about to open one notices that it is red with dirty-green 

 tip. The flower opens and becomes yellow and the inner whorl 

 of stamens protrudes about ^". They shed their pollen and 

 then the stamens of the outer whorl begin to take its place. 

 By the time the outer whorl of stamens is withdrawn again, 

 the style has come out. 



34 (317). A. tenuior, Haw. — This species extends as far as 

 Komgha (H, G. Flanagan, no. 1325). It flowers at irregular 

 intervals (probably influenced hj climatic conditions) almost all 

 the year round in the neighbourhood of Grahamstown. 



