A^cw find little hnoicn Phnit.'^. 121 



cm. long, ?) cm. broad and 1> 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 ram. 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. Inflorescence about 24 cm high, unbranched, 

 peduncle about 12 cm. long, provided with a number of empty 

 broadly deltoid bracts, raceme very dense, multiflowered ; flower- 

 bearing bracts deflexed lanceolate-acuminate, about 18 mm. long, 

 membranous, whitish with reddish centre ; flowerbuds red, turn- 

 ing 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. 4,100', 

 Miss Alice Pegler, No. 921, 15th Aug. 1903. 



This very distinct new species may be placed near .4. lon- 

 gistyla, Bak. When sending it. Miss Pegler not inaptly compared 

 its appearance to a loose cabbage. 



Aloe Greatheadii, Schonl. n. sp. — Caulescent. Trunk ascend- 

 ing 10-12 cm. thick, up to 30 cm. high. Leaves in a terminal 

 dense rosette, lanceolate, outer about 23 cm. long, G-7 cm. broad 

 low down and 1 cm. thick, slightly incurved, upper surface nearly 

 flat, dark shining green, with numerous elongated whitish spots 

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

 of irregular transverse bands, lower surface unspotted, light green, 

 with a few small prickles on the outer surface near the tip, mar- 

 ginal prickles very pointe-l, usually quite straight, brown, separated 

 by rounded fairly regular interspaces, which are 7-8 mm. long. 

 Inflorescence 60-120 cm. high, usually branched. Peduncle 

 glaucous, sub terete, 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-accuminate, lower about 15 mm. long, upper gradu- 

 ally smaller. Pedicels usually nearly twice the length of the 

 bracts, but some (in the same raceme) only about | their length. 

 Flowerbuds 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 



