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A NEW ALOE EEOM SWAZILAND. 
By I. B. Pole Evans. 
(Eead July 21, 1915.) 
(Plate XLIV.) 
ALOE SUPRAFOLIATA, spec. nov. Swaziland. 
Aloe suprafoliata, Pole Evans ; species nova et distinctissima, nulli alii 
arctius affinis, sectionem propriam constituere debet. 
Sitperpositse Pole Evans. 
Acaules ; folia disticha, superposita, carnosa, inmiaculata, lanceolata, 
sensim acuminata, dentibus marginalibus armata. Pedunculus simplex, 
vacue bracteatus, racemus sublaxus ; bracteae late lanceolatae apice acutae, 
Acres trigono-cylindracei. 
Herha succulenta, acaulis vel brevissime candescens. Folia ca. 12, 
stricte, disticha, glauco-viridia, patentia vel venuste arcuata, superposita, 
rigida, carnosa, lanceolata, acuminata, 17-30 cm. longa, basi 4 cm. lata, 
supra subcanaliculata, subtus convexa, ad margines dentibus 3 mm. longis 
rubro-brunneis pungentibus 5-9 mm. inter se distantibus armata, et linea 
cartilaginea rubella cincta. 
Inflorescentias 35 cm. altae scapus simplex, basi nudus, superne bracteis 
9-10 vacuis late lanceolata-acutis munitus ; racemus ca. 15 cm. longus et 
ca. 30-florus, sublaxus ; bracteae lanceolato-acutae, plurinerviae, 15 mm. 
longae et 10 mm. latae ; pedicelli 10-12 mm. longi, erecto-patuli. 
Perianthium rosaceum, 38-40 mm. longum et 6 mm. latum, base levis- 
sime stipitatum, anguste cylindraceum , distincte trigonum ; segmentis 
exterioribus medium counatis, acutis, apice viridulis ; antherae vix exsertae. 
This rather remarkable Aloe was first brought to me from Swaziland by 
Mr. E. A. Davis in June, 1914. At first I was inclined to regard it as an 
immature specimen. When received, it was in the condition shown in Fig. 1. 
Further specimens which were obtained from the same locality showed very 
little variation from the original specimen either in size or general character. 
The leaves were always exactly distichous and were superimposed one above 
the other in a most regular fashion. After being planted out for nearly a 
