Plate 2. 



ALOE GLOBULIGEMMA. 



Transvaal. 



Liliaceae. Tribe Aloineae. 

 Aloe, Linn. ; Benth. et HooJc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 776. 



Aloe globuligemma, Pole Evans in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa, vol. v. pp. 30-32, 



Pis. x., xi. 



This remarkable Aloe was collected by Messrs. Wickens 

 and Pienaar in M'Phathlele's Location in the Pietersburg 

 District during January, 1914. Specimens brought to the 

 Botanical Laboratories, Pretoria, flowered during July and 

 August of the same year. 



In M'Phathlele's Location the plant occurs in vast 

 numbers in a very gregarious manner on the open sandy 

 plains. In fact, it is not uncommon to find long, continuous 

 belts of thickly crowded plants extending for two or three 

 hundred yards in length. The plant is typical of the Low 

 Veld and the river valleys which run from the Zoutpansberg 

 into the Limpopo basin. 



At first the racemes are furnished with widely separated 

 spherical to globular flower-buds which develop with con- 

 siderable slowness. 



The unopened flowers are rich nopal red (E.C.S.), tinged 

 with green at the tips. When open, the flowers become a 

 sulphur-yellow (E.C.S.). 



Our illustration was made from a plant in the Aloe col- 

 lection at the Botanical Laboratories, Pretoria. 



Description : — A succulent, stemless plant. Leaves 16-23 

 in a dense rosette, glaucous, erect-spreading, 45-50 cm. long, 

 8-9 cm. broad at the base, lanceolate-ensiform, acuminate, 

 acute and recurved at the apex, unspotted, somewhat 

 flat at the base and canaliculate above, with cartilaginous 

 wavy and toothed margins ; teeth pale brown and at right 

 angles to the margins, 1*5-2 mm. long, and about 8-9 mm. 

 apart, deltoid, recurved. Inflorescence a panicle, with 5-7 

 spreading horizontal to oblique branches with a few small 



