DescriiJtions of Some New Aloes from the Transvaal. 
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Description. — Stem usually short, sometimes as much as 1 metre 
in height, unbranched. 
Leaves numerous, in a dense rosette, erect-incurved, lanceolate-ensi- 
form, distinctly attenuated, terminating in a sharp thorn, 45-60 cm. 
long, and 7*5-11 cm. broad at the base, 15-17 mm. thick, the margins 
beset with conical reddish-brown thorns 5-6 mm. long and 10-20 mm. 
apart, somewhat concave above, channelled towards the apex and with 
a few similar thorns especially in the median line, convex below and 
more thickly studded with thorns. 
Peduncle stout, simple or branched, laterally compressed, clothed 
with numerous broad deltoid bracts, usually 2-5 branches, arcuate-erect ; 
racemes 30-60 cm. long and about 7 cm. broad, clothed at the base 
with dry empty scariose bracts, dense, many-flowered, upper part of 
raceme with unopened buds bright orange-scarlet ; bracts maroon-claret 
brown (R.C.S.), deltoid-acute 11 mm. long, and 7-8 mm. broad; pedicels 
3 mm. long. 
Perianth 34-38 mm. long, cylindrical- ventricose, lemon-yellow (E.C.S.) ; 
outer segments united for 14-16 mm. from the base, linear-lanceolate, 
with 3 green or orange veins and tipped with brown, inner segments 
lighter in colour, more obtuse with chestnut-brown tips. Stamens and 
style protruding 15-17 mm. beyond the perianth, filaments stout, coloured 
auburn (R.C.S.) ; anthers bright orange chrome (R.C.S.), dark brown 
at the back, style lemon-yellow. 
Capsule cylindrical trigonous, 14-18 mm. long and 8-10 mm. diam., 
greyish; seeds triquetrous, narrowly winged dark, 4 mm. long. 
