Descriptions of Some Neio Aloes from the Transvaal. 
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larly interrupted and by which irregular transverse bands are produced, 
lower surface light green or glaucous, indistinctly lineate, margins wavy 
with a distinct brown cartilaginous border, and beset with short deltoid 
horny teeth which are 9-12 mm. apart, brown, and 6-7 mm. long. 
Inflorescence about 80 cm. high, branched below the middle, branches 
2-3, erect, subtended at the base by bracts 10-11 cm. long, racemes 
elongated, densely flowered, 25-30 cm. long ; bracts 45-47 mm. long, 
lanceolate-linear, subulate-acuminate ; pedicels 15-17 mm. long, rather 
yellowish. 
Perianth strawberry-pink (E.C.S.), 40 mm. long, distinctly inflated at 
the base and 9 mm. diam., then clearly constricted above the ovary, 
very slightly decurved and swollen towards the mouth, lobes long and 
free for 15-17 mm., paler in colour at the margins, yellowish inside. 
Style and stamens very slightly exserted. 
Capsule oblong-cylindrical, 3-angled, 23-27 mm. long and 13-16 mm. 
diam., greyish ; pedicels 25-27 mm. long, erect. 
Seeds oblong, 3-winged, wings narrow, greyish-brown, 5 mm. long. 
Aloe Pienaakii, spec. nov. 
Transvaal. 
(Plates VI. and VII.) 
Aloe Pienaarii, Pole Evans ; species nova, A. ahyssinica, Lam., simillima, 
et certe ad sectionen banc spectat, sed bracteae multo magiores, 
distincte cuspidatae, et perianthium non basi stipitatum. 
Herha succulenta acaulis. Folia 35-60, dense rosulata, erecta, leviter 
apice recurvata, lanceolata-ensiformia, laete rufo-viridia vel caerulea, 60- 
80 cm. longa et basi 12-15 cm. lata, ad margines aculeis parvis deltoideis 
castaneis 2 mm. longis et 5-7 mm. inter se distantibus armata. 
Inflorescentiae 2 -3 ex eadem rosula, copiose paniculata-ramosae, 
erectae, l-25-l'65 m. altae, ramis ca. 8 arcuato-erectibus basi bractea 
deltoideo-acuminata suffultis ; racemi cylindrico-conici, densiflori, circ. 
25-35 cm. longi, floribus primum coccineis apice viridulis, deinde expansis 
lutescentibus ; bracteae initio dense imbricatae deinde pedicellos amplec- 
tentes, late ovato-acuminatae, plurinervae, 20 mm. longae et 11 mm. 
latae ; pedicelli erecto-patentes, 15-20 mm. longi, viridio-coccini. 
Perianthium 35-38 mm. longum, subtrigona-cylindraceum, segmenta 
exteriora vix tubo breviora, libera, acuta, interiora obtusiora, leviter apice 
recurva, lateralia conniventia faucem angustam erectam formantia ; 
genitalia vix exserta. 
Capsula perianthio sicco involuta, cylindraceo-trigono, lignosa, 20 mm. 
longa ; semina fusca, irregularia, anguste alata, 4-5 mm. longa. 
