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flower-buds are at first morocco-red (R.C.S.), they then turn a dull green- 
yellow (E.C.S.) and finally the open flowers become a bright lemon 
chrome (R.O.S.). The perianth differs from A. Pienaarii in being dis- 
tinctly carinate ; it is about 7 mm. diam. towards the base and 13 mm. 
diam. at the widest portion. 
Description. — Herb succulent, stemless. 
Leaves 40-50 in a dense rosette, lanceolate-ensiform, erect, dis- 
tinctly incurved, pale glaucous green 50-70 cm. long and 10-13 cm. 
at the base, rather flat, convex below, beset at the margins with small 
deltoid thorns about 2 mm. long, black, and about 6-8 mm. apart. 
Inflorescences often 2-4 from the same rosette, spreading ; scape 
laterally compressed, naked, with usually two lateral branches ; branches 
arcuate- erect, clothed with pale brown scariose broadly ovate-acuminate 
bracts ; racemes densely flowered, conical cylindrical, 17-20 cm. long ; 
bracts and tinged with red towards the base ; the young buds distinctly 
globular ; bracts scariose, pellucidate, 5-6 mm. long, ovate-cuspidate, 
reflexed ; pedicels recurved 3-4 mm. long. 
Perianth 35 mm. long, cylindrical- ventricose, very shortly stipitate ; 
outer segments free for 15-17 mm., obtuse, recurved at the apex, 3-5- 
nerved; inner segments obtuse, recurved, tipped with auburn (R.C.S.), 
with 3 green nerves. Stamens projecting 11 mm. beyond the perianth 
and slightly recurved, the exposed portion of the filaments chestnut-brown 
to black ; anthers mars orange (R.C.S.). 
Style stout, strongly recurved, pale sulphur-yellow (R.C.S.), 
Capsule shortly stipitate, oblong-ovoid, 25 mm. long and 13 mm. broad. 
Aloe globuligemma, spec. nov. 
Transvaal. 
(Plates X. and XI.) 
Aloe globuligemma, Pole Evans; species unica, certe ad sectionem Pleiiro- 
stachyarum pertinet et affinis est A. secundifiorae, Engl., sed differt 
acaulescente et globuligemmis. 
Herba succulenta, acaulis. Folia 16-23 dense rosulata erecto-patula, 
lanceolato-ensiformia sensim attenuata, apice recurvata, glauca, immacu- 
lata, basi planiuscula superne canaliculata, 45-50 cm. longa et basi 8-9 cm. 
lata, ad margines linea tenui cartilaginea cincta dentibusque parvis 
deltoideis instructa, pallidis brunneis 1|— 2 mm. longis et ca. 8-9 mm. 
inter se distantes. Inflorescentia valde ramosa, circ. 60 cm.-l m. alta ; 
pedunculus robustus, glaucus, nudus ; rami 5-7 horizontaliter-oblique 
patentes, basi bracteis parvis deltoideo-acutis vacuis muniti ; racemi 
