282 Albany Museum Records. 



On some Sonth African specios oP Afiu\ witli si)ecial refoi-ence to 

 those repi'ost'nted in the flerl)ai-iiiin of tlie All)any Museain. II. 

 By Dr. S. SCIfciNLAND. 



The following' notes are a continuation oi" the paper wliicli 

 I published in the first numbei- of these " Records." Thi'on»]i the 

 kindness of Sir W. Thiselton-Dyer, F.R.8,, Director of the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Mr. Alwin Bergei-, of La Mortola, 1 have 

 received a number of species of Aloe cultivated in Europe, and 

 have thus been able to correlate some of these cultivated specimens 

 with plants in their native habitats, and with others which had 

 only been recently taken into cultivation. Some interesting results 

 have in this way already been obtained. From numerous friends 

 in South Africa I have received live specimens, which have 

 extended our knowledge of the geographical distribution of the 

 members of this genus very considerably. Some of the plants 

 which I have grown for years already have not flowered yet, and 

 may turn out to lie undescribed species. To Dr. P. MacOwan we 

 owe a small numbei' of Aloes collected by Ecklon and Zejliei-. 

 As far as I know, these have never been referred to yet with the 

 exception of a few mentioned in Vol VI. of the Flora Capensis. I 

 have, therefore, thought it advisable to include their determination 

 in this paper. Three of them represent most likely undescribed 

 species, but the material at my disposal is too poor to allow of 

 satisfactory descriptions being drawn up from it. One is referred to 

 under A. Jiumilis, another under A. pratensis : the third is 

 Zeyher's No. 4176 from rocky places on the Heerelogements 

 mountain, 2nd and 3rd altitude, January. It has multi-flowered, 

 very dense, almost capitate racemes, the bracts are deltoid-lanceolate, 

 the flowers are slightly curved, only 13-17 mm. long; the pedicels 

 are slightly longer than the flowers, and spreading, the only 



