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DESCEIPTIONS OF SOME NEW ALOES FROM THE 
TRANSVAAL. 
By I. B. Pole Evans, M.A., B.Sc, F.L.S. 
(With Plates V.-XV.) 
Burtt-Davy " in his First Check-List of the Flowering Plants and 
Ferns of the Transvaal and Swaziland,' published in May, 1912, records 
some seventeen species of Aloe from the above regions. Of these only 
five species, namely, A. castanea, A. cinnabarina, A. Dycri, A. Peglerae, 
and A. transvaalensis may be looked upon as peculiar to the Transvaal ; 
the rest have a fairly wide distribution throughout South Africa. 
Of the former, A. cinnabarina, Diels, which is only recorded from the 
Transvaal f is at present unknown to me, while of the latter it is very 
doubtful whether xi. lineata, Haw., occurs in the Transvaal or Swaziland, 
for plants which have been mistaken for this species from these regions 
prove to be entirely different, and are described in the present paper 
as Aloe Pretoriensis. 
Aloe longibracteata, spec. nov. 
Transvaal. 
(Plate V.) 
Aloe longibracteaia, Vole Evans; species nova affinis A. affinis, Berg., sed 
foliis copiose maculatis triangulariis et erectis, longissimis bracteis 
differt. 
Hcrba succulenta, acaulis. Folia 21-33 dense rosulata, valde patentia, 
apice frequenter sicca et recurvata, triangulari-lanceolata, 9-20 cm. 
longa et 9-11 cm. lata, carnosissima, supra subcanaliculata, obscure 
viridia vel rubescentia, striata maculisque magnis albidis oblongis saepe 
* Annals of the Transvaal Museum, May, 1912, pp. 134-5. 
t A. Berger in "Engl. Planzenreich. Liliac. Asphodel- Aloin," p. 271. 
