44 NEW PETALOID MONOOOTyLEDONS FROM CAPE COLONY. 



thick in the middle, rounded to a cusp at the apex, dentate on the 

 edge upwards, the spots of the face crowded, small, whitish, 

 slightl}^ raised. Flowers unknown. 



Hab. Described from a living plant in the Kew collection in 

 1885, received from Berlin. Near G. subvernicosa Haw. 



G. transvaalensiSj Hort. De Smet. — Acaulescent. Eosette 

 distichous or slightly oblique. Leafy stem short. Leaves about 8, 

 lorate, dark green, rather glossy, 4-5 in. long, an inch broad, J in. 

 thick in the centre, the face not excavated, the border not thickened, 

 but toothed towards the white Jiorny deltoid-cuspidate apex ; spots 

 greenish- white, immersed, aggregated into transverse bands. 

 Flowers unknown. 



Hab. Transvaal. Described from a living plant in the Kew 

 collection in 1885. Allied to G. nigricans Haw. 



Aloe leptophylla, N. E. Brown in Herb. Kew. — Stem short, 

 simple, 1^-2 in. diam. below the rosette of leaves. Leaves 12-20, 

 lanceolate, 9-12 in. long, 2-3 in. broad low down, tapering 

 gradually from the middle to the point, ^ in. thick in the middle, 

 green or tinged with purple, distinctly lineate with copious linear- 

 oblong whitish blotches ; marginal prickles deltoid, ^ in. long. 

 Peduncle simple, \^ ft. long. Eaceme dense, capitate, about 3 in. 

 long and broad ; pedicels 1-1-| in. long ; bracts small, lanceolate- 

 deltoid, acuminate. Perianth 1:^ in. long; segments much shorter 

 than the cjdindrical tube. Stamens as long as the perianth. 



Hab. Eastern provinces, introduced into cultivation by Cooper 

 about 1860. May be the imperfectly-described A. tenuifoUa Lam. 

 Encyc. i. 8. It differs from A. Saponaria and A. latifolia by its 

 thinner very flexible leaves. 



A. Brownii, n. sp. — Stem short, simple below the rather lax 

 rosette of leaves, 2-3 in. diam. Leaves lanceolate, about a foot and 

 a half long, 3-4 in. broad low down, neither spotted nor striped, 

 \ in. thick in the middle, flat on the face in the lower third, 

 narrowed gradually from the middle to the pungent tip, margined 

 with close deltoid-cuspidate brown-tipped prickles ^-^ in. long. 

 Peduncle stout, simple, above a foot long, with many ovate empty 

 bracts. Eaceme dense, simple, 4-8 in. long ; pedicels |-f in. long; 

 bracts ovate-oblong, nearly as long as the pedicels. Perianth 

 bright red-yellow, cylindrical, 1-1:^ in. long, cut down very nearly 

 to the base. Stamens slightly exserted. Style exserted ^ in. 

 A. nohilis var. demifoUa Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 172. 



Hab. Eastern provinces. Described from a living plant that 

 flowered at Kew in 1885. 



Apicra turgida, n. sp. — Leafy stem 6-9 in. long, 2-2^ in. 

 diam. (leaves included). Leaves arranged in five spirally- twisted 

 rows, deltoid, an inch long, f in. broad, smooth on the face, 

 scabrous on the margin, quite free from spots or tubercles, the 

 lower spreading, dull green, turgid on the face, rounded on the 

 back, 1-^ in. thick in the middle, the upper pale green, with 

 several indistinct vertical ribs of darker green, flat on the face. 

 Flowers unknown. 



Hab. Albany, Hutton ! Introduced into cultivation in 1872. 

 Near A. deltoidea Baker (Bot. Mag. t. 6071). 



