lamina straw-colour, the veins and veinlets dull reddish -brown ; 

 acuminate at apex, stems short. Basal leaf sometimes 6 feet 

 long, £ inch wide at base, gradually tapering to apex, which is 

 often, perhaps always, withered for one to three feet down- 

 wards, glabrous, sab-glaucous, enclosing at base a number of 

 small bulbils, with one or two at nodes. Spathe valves 3-5 

 inches long, cylindrical, 2 or more flowered, the inner one long- 

 est, outer connate at base for more than half their length, long 

 acuminate, green with withered tips. Perianth yellow, with a 

 number of dark spots at base of each lobe, and a clearly defined 

 midrib. Segments spreading, 1-1 ~ inches long, \ inch wide, 

 oblong, outer one mucronulate at apex, inner similar but 

 narrower, subequal in length. Filaments connate for two- 

 thirds of their length. Anthers sagittate, linear-oblong, ex- 

 trorse, connective produced beyond the cells. Pollen yellow. 

 Style spathulate, finely ciliate at upper edge, the crests lanceo- 

 late, the inner free edges running to base of the petaloid styles. 

 Ovary 3-celled, obtusely 3 angled, ovules one or two seriate, 

 superposed, numerous. Capsule not seen. 



Habitat. Natal. Mooi River district. J. Medley Wood, 

 No. 4,035. 



This plant belongs to the sub-genus Eumorea, and to the 

 section Corymbosae, and comes near to M. iriopetala, but 

 differs in size and coating of conns, length of spathe-valves 

 which are withered at the tip, colour of flowers, and shape of 

 perianth lobes. From M. mira it differs by length of leaf, stem 

 and peduncle, colour of flowers, and pollen, and cutting 'of 

 style-crests. This is one of the plants called by the Dutch 

 colonists " Tulp " or " Tulip " which are so frequently fatal to 

 cattle ; its leaves appear in the early spring when grass is not 

 plentiful, and cattle — I believe especially those from a district 

 where the plant is not found — eat it with fatal results, whole 

 spans of oxen having been killed by it. Probably several 

 species of Moraea have the same properties, and are included in 

 the generic name " Tulp." 



Aloe MarshalU, Wood & Evans. 



A stemless herb, produced leaves 20 or more, in several rows, 

 erect, linear, much dilated at base for 1-2 inches, then gradually 

 narrowing, upper portion narrow-linear, apex acute, the dilated 

 portion covered with minute white spots, the linear portion 2-3 

 lines wide, not channelled, midvein conspicious, margin with 

 small spinous teeth, which are more numerous towards base and 

 apex. Peduncles simple, 1-2 feet long, with few ovate cuspidate 

 scarious bracts. Flowers 15 30 racemose, internodes J-^ inch 

 long, lower pedicels |-| inch long. Bracts oblong-cuspidate, a 



