Some New Aloes from the Transvaal. 
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Capsula perigonio sicco involuta, parva, cylindraceo-oblonga, 9-10 mm. 
longa. 
Semina triquetra, grisea, angustissime alata, 3 mm. longa. 
Aloe sessilifiora was collected in the Barberton District by Mr. Wickens, 
and the plants first flowered at the Union Buildings in June and July of 
1914. 
Specimens of this plant have also been collected near Barberton by Mr. 
G-eorge Thorncroft. 
The inflorescence is not very attractive. During the winter months the 
foliage is of a distinct reddish colour, while in the summer it is bright 
green. 
The characters of the inflorescence and general structure of the flowers 
leave no doubt but that the plant must be regarded as being related to 
A. castanea, Schon. It differs from A. castanea, Schon., in having a less 
robust habit of growth, while its leaves are spreading and not quite so fleshy. 
The flowers and seed-capsules are also much smaller than those of A. 
castanea, Schon. 
Description. — Herh succulent, becoming fruticose, stems up to 90 cm. high. 
Leaves in a dense rosette, spreading recurved, somewhat fleshy, channelled 
above, convex below, light green or sometimes entirely red above, glabrous, 
45-60 cm. long, 6-8 cm. broad, with a reddish margin and armed with 
small pink cartilaginous recurved thorns 1-1 '5 mm. long and 7-10 mm. 
apart. 
Scape simple, laterally compressed, dark reddish brown, about 60-75 
cm. long, provided with numerous oblong-deltoid, light brown, scarious 
empty bracts, mostly 3-nerved, raceme 25-30 cm. long, very densely multi- 
flowered ; bracts ovate-cuspidate, scarious, 3-nerved, 10 mm. long, 7 mm. 
broad ; flowers sessile, campanulate-cylindrical, flower buds pale reddish 
brown striped with green at the tips. 
Perianth 14 mm. long, segments free, outer 5 mm. broad, spathulate, 
flesh-coloured with three longitudinal dark nerves, inner 8 mm. broad 
yellowish at the edges and with a reddish or greenish median line. 
Stamens and style protruding 8-10 mm. beyond the perianth. 
Ca]jsule enwrapped with dry perianth, small, cylindrical-oblong, 9-10 
mm. long. Seeds triquetrous, greyish, very narrowly winged, 3 mm. long. 
Aloe Thorncroftii, spec. nov. 
Transvaal. 
(Plate LVI.) 
Aloe Thorncroftii Pole Evans ; species distinctissima, nulli alii arctius 
affinis, sectionem propriam constituere debet. 
