Descriplions of Some Neiu Aloes from the Transvaal. 
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densiflori 22-40 cm. longi ; flores secundi, omnessursum spectantes versus 
centrum inflorescentiae simulae leviter deflexi, junioribus clausis rubris, 
expansis sulphureis basi rubro-tinctis ; juniores gemmae distincte 
globulae ; bracteae scariosae, pelludidae, 5-6 mm. longae, ovato-cuspi- 
datae, reflexae ; pedicelli recurvi, 3-4 mm. longi. 
Perianthiuvi, 25 mm. longus, cylindrico-ventricosum, brevissime stipi- 
tatum ; segmenta exteriora 15-17 mm. longa, obtusa, apice leviter 
recurvata, 3-5 nervia ; interiora apice fusca, trinervia. 
Filamenta per 11 mm. exserta et leviter recurvata. Stylus valida efc 
valde arcuato-recurvatus. 
Gapsida breviter stipitata, oblonga-ovoidea, 25 mm. longa et 13 mm. 
lata. 
This remarkable Aloe was collected by Messrs. Wickens and Pienaar 
in M'Phathlele's Location in January, 1914. 
Specimens brought to Pretoria flowered towards the end of July and 
during August of this year. 
The plant occurs in vast numbers in a very gregarious manner in open 
sandy stretches. It is not uncommon to find long, continuous belts of 
thickly crowded plants extending for two to three hundred yards in 
length. 
In the early stages of development the racemes are conspicuously 
furnished with widely separated spherical to globular flower-buds which 
develop with considerable slowness. The unopened flowers are a rich 
nopal red (E.C.S.) tinged with green at the tips; as soon as they open 
the flowers become a sulphur-yellow (E.C.S.). 
I think this Aloe must be referred to Berger's Plcurostacliyae, and it 
would appear to show some relationships with A. sccundiflora, Engl. 
Description. — Herb succulent, stemless. 
Leaves 16-23 in a dense rosette, erect-spreading, lanceolate-ensiform, 
distinctly attenuated, recurved at the apex, glaucous, unspotted, some- 
what flar at the base canaliculate above, 45-50 cm. long, and 8-9 cm. 
broad at the base ; margins cartilaginous, wavy and toothed ; teeth 
standing out at right angles to the margins, deltoid, recurved, pale brown, 
1^-2 mm. long and about 8-9 mm. apart. 
Inflorescence very branched, about 60 cm.-l metre high ; peduncle 
stout, glaucous, naked ; branches 5-7 spreading horizontally to obliquely, 
with a few small deltoid-acute empty bracts at the base ; racemes densely 
flowered 22-40 cm. long ; flowers secund, all pointing upwards the 
centre of the inflorescence and at the same time slightly deflexed, 
unopened flowers nopal red (R.C.S.), green at the tips, sulphur-yellow 
(R.C.S.) when expanded and tinged with red towards the base; the young 
