1'2() .-1 Ihanij Mnsi'inn R/'cards'. 



terete, ig cm. long", provided with ;i few sterile, deltoid bracts',. 

 pseudo-spike evidently injured at the ai)ex and (probably as a 

 Gonseijuence) compound, bracts small, broadly deltoid, acute. 

 Flowers shortly pedicelled^ secondary ones almost sessile : buds 

 green, red-tipped : calyx lobes deltoid, acute, H mm. long", green : 

 corolla-tube green, subcylindrical, with a very slight convexity 

 doi'sally, c. 11 mm. long, lobes pale pink with darker centre, 

 broadly ovate, acuminate, somewhat twisted and gentl) reflexed : 

 stamens and styles not exceeding the open corolla ; filaments 

 glabrous, yellowish ; anthei-s oblong, apiculate, pale yellowish : 

 styles greenish, stigmata small, squamae minute, broadly cuneate, 

 deeply emarginate above, white. 



Ahw B(>i/lfi\ Bak. — One live specimen was contril)uted by 

 Mr. W. (t. Bennie, B.A. I^, was found on the Untuntloni Mt., 

 Tembuland, alt. c. -4,500'. The following notes were taken from 

 this specimen : Sub-acaulescent ; roots thick, fleshy ; leaves 8, sub- 

 distichous, c. 17 cm. long, up to 4 cm. broad below, strapshaped 

 below, tapering gradually in the upper half to a blunt point, apex 

 dead in the older leaves, margin curved inwards near the apex, 

 rather soft, fleshy, almost plain on the surface, slightly convex on 

 the back, faintly but distinctly lineate on both surfaces, glaucous., 

 unspotted except at the base, where a few slightly raised irregular 

 white spots are found on the front and back, marginal prickles 

 1 — 1^ mm. long, white, not very rigid, very irregular in form and 

 not evenly distributed, more or less confluent into a horny border. 

 Peduncle robust, about 25 cm. long, light green, with a low sharp 

 ridge on one side in the lower portion, otherwise terete, with a 

 few ovate-acuminate empty bracts : inflorescence dense, corymbose, 

 bracts ovate-acuminate, membranous, light coloured with dark 

 veins, c. 1*5 mm. long, pedicels c. 4 cm. long, more or less curved. 

 Flowers proterandrous, perianth subcylindrical, c. 3 cm. long : 

 outer petals slightly shorter than the inner and slightly differing 

 in size amongst themselves, salmon-coloured with darker tips, 

 inner almost white with keel which is pale salmon-coloured below 

 and is greeji at the apex. Filaments very slightly longer than 

 the inner petals, almost white with a yellowish tinge, anthers 

 oblong, 3 mm. long, pale brick-colouv, style white, eventually 

 exserted about 5 mm. 



Aloe Peg leraf'.^chonl. n. sp.— Acaulescent or with a very 

 short stem. Leaves about 30 in a dense rosette, glaucous, very 

 stiff, incurved, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, slightly convex on the 

 inner, a little more so on the outer surface, outer leaves about 12 



