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buds distinctly globular ; bracts scariose, pellucidate, 5-6 mm. long, ovate- 
cuspidate, reflexed ; pedicels recurved 3-4 mm. long. 
Perianth 25 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 (E.C.S.); 
with three 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 (E.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 Pretotiiensis. 
Transvaal. 
(Plates XII. and XIII.) 
Aloe Pretoriensis, Pole Evans, in Gard. Chron., 1914, vol. Ivi., pp. 105-6; 
affinis A. arborescentis, Mill., sed non frutescente, foliis multo rigid- 
ioribus et inflorescentia altissima copiose ramosa differt. 
Truncus simplex, brevis, interdum 1 m. altus, 8-12 cm. diam. 
Folia numerosa, 30-60 dense rosulata, arcuato-erecta, 30-65 cm. 
longa et basi 3-7 cm. lata, 8-10 mm. crassa, lanceolata et sensim 
acuminata, supra planiscula leviter canaliculata versus apicem, subtus 
convexa, pallida viridia vel glauca, ad margines pungentibus cornels 
aculeisque deltoideis apice curvatus, rubris, 3-4 mm. longis et circa 
10-17 mm. distantibus instructa. 
Inflorescentiae circa 2-3-5 m. altae ; scapus validus, basi nudus, 
plerumque ramos 2-8 emittens, rami erecto-patentes, basi deltoideo-ovatis 
bracteis suffulti ; racemi conico-cylindracei, 15-50 cm. longi, densi, 
laxius floribus pendulibus ; bracteae ovato-deltoideae, plurinerviae, 
15-20 mm. longae et 10-12 mm. latae ; pedicelli 20-25 mm. longi. 
Perianthiuni cylindraceum, medio paullum ampliatum et versus 
faucem leviter compressum, laete rubrum, 40-43 mm. longum, segmenta 
libera, apice viridio-luteola ; filamenta stylusque breviter exserta, viridio- 
luteola, antherae rubro-brunneae. 
Capsula perianthio sicco involuta, cylindracea, subtrigona, 15-18 mm. 
longa et circa 6 mm. lata, grisea ; pedicelli fructiferi 25-30 mm. longi, 
erecti ; semina parva, angustissime triquetra fusca, 2-4 mm. longa. 
Although this plant does not possess the shrubby or arborescent 
habit of Berger's Arborescentes, the characters of the inflorescence and 
flowers plentifully show that its relationships lie with Aloe pluridens and 
A. arbor escens. 
