133 unequally 5-lobed, pustulate like the leaves; lobes 3-4 lines long, 

 acute or acuminate, the inner with narrov/, membranous margins. Co- 

 rolla 1-li inch in diameter petals in tv;o series, 



1^4 imbricating in one plane and recurving, 5-6 lines long, ^-» line 

 brond, linear, sub-ecute, or tapering from the middle to a suba- 

 ciite point, lifrht yellov/, with a slightl^r darker yellov/ (not red) 

 midline and sometimes tinned v;ith red at the tips. Stamens collec- 

 ted into p broad cone, v'hite. Stigmas 10, filiform, finally exeeed- 

 ine- the stamens. 



I'esembrA'-Enthemum aloides, Havr. Suppl., ^^a, and Rev.. 87; 

 Burchell, Trav., I, 332; N. E. Br. in Journ. Unn. Soc. Bot., XLV, 

 123; Pole 3vans, Fl. Pi. 3. Afr., II, t. 54, not of other authors. 

 Aloinonsis aloides, Schv;ant., in -^eitschr. f. 3^^]^,^ 1926, 178. 



Bechuanalend: At tfetl owing River, Burchell, 2197, and Jabiru 

 Fontein, Near Takun, Bruchell 2249-8; near Postms-sburg, Pole 

 ^vans 7584. 



The above description is chiefly compiles from a drav/ing of 

 the t^^ne plant at Kew, labelled ? — "I", aloides, Haw. J^eceived from 

 Kt. Ha'-orth in the year 1822, who obtained it from Mr. Burchell," 

 end from Haworth's description, with a fev; details added from the 

 Postmasburg plant. According to his -••^S. lists, Bruchell collected 

 seeds only of 2197, but of 2249-8 seeds and a dried specimen were 

 collected, and according to a list of his collection at Kev; this 

 particular number v/es treated as a duplicate and is probably in the 

 Asa Gra^r Herbarium at Harvard Uyiiversity, Ggnt)ridge, %ssachusetts. 

 United States. 



Plant has not^ yet been found in the localities where Burchell 

 collected it, but Dr. Pole Evans found vhet I believe to the same 

 species near Postmasburg, and which is represented from ^ig. 69 from 

 a nhotograph by -''r. T, K, Leslie. This plant ouite accords v/ith 

 the beautiful drav/ing of the type at Kev/, except that its leavesr 

 are rather lare-er on v;ell-grown plants than represented in the orig- 

 inal drawing, where they are not more than li inch long and 4-5 

 lines broad, but when first sent to me the leaves of the Postmasburg 

 plant v/ere scarcely larger and as represented in Fig. 68 which is 

 made from a wild plant. The petals in the dravang as seen with a 

 lens are subacute and red at the tips, and on a few of them a slender 

 line of darker yellow (not red) down the centre of each can be 

 clearly discerned, but is not represented on the majority of the 

 petals, which, from the "high light" upon them are evidently 

 shining. I have seen the flov/er of the Postmasburg plant and have 

 no recollection of having seen a distinct red line on its petals 

 such as occurs in N. rubrolineatus, nor is a red lien represented 

 in the coloured figure of this plant in Pi. Pi. 3, ii.fr., II, t. 54, 

 and in the description accompanying it they are stated to be lemon- 

 yellov: without any mention of a red midline. Yet, as photographs 

 (for I have another made from my ovin plant) represent a darker 

 midline, in all probability there is a slightly darker yellow (not 

 red) midline as is represented in the original drawing at Kev/, and 

 v/hich is unnoticiable to the eye, but v/hich the camera easily de- 

 tects. Ip-ive this details because Mrs. Bolus has also reproduced 

 in S. Afr. Gard., 1930, p. 48, this ame photograph of Mr. Leslie's 

 v;ith the name Aloinopsis a]oides var. striata, L. Bol., attached 

 to it, withor.t a description. Yet v;hen v.'e analyse the account given 

 with it, v;e find that the name is actually based upon what is evident- 

 ly an entirely different species, for I^'rs. Bolus states that i-^r. 

 Leslie's with tbe name Aloinopsis aloides attached to it, without 

 a description. Yet when vie analyse the account given Vv'ith it, v/e 



