Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
14. H. Rooperi , Moore. Conn globose, 2-4 in. diam., 
with many fleshy rootlets, crowned with a dense ring of black 
bristles : leaves 1 2-18 or more, equitant in 3 ranks, lorate, 
acuminate, ^-1 ft. long at the flowering time, 1-2 in. wide 
in the lower half, rather firm in texture, glabrous or nearly so 
above, shortly hairy on the back and margin : peduncles 2-9, 
flattened, hairy upwards, 3-12 in. long; flowers 4-10, 
racemose ; bracts linear, as long or longer than the pedicels ; 
perianth-segments oblong, yellow, \ in. long, the outer hairy 
on the back ; anthers longer than the filaments ; ovary very 
hairy ; stigmata concrete ; capsule densely hairy, opening at 
the top, seeds black, shining. 
Flowering September, October, November. 
Potcliefstroom District, Mooi River, Nelson, 302 ; Hout- 
bosch, Rehmann, 5810 ; Barberton, 1800-2600 ft., Galpin, 
1190 ; without precise locality McLea in Herb. Bolus, 5801 ; 
Zoutpansberg ; common round Pretoria, Miss Leendertz, 274 ; 
Irene, Miss Leendertz, 919. 
2. Agave. L. 
Perianth regular, funnel-shaped with a short or long tube, 
segments straight or spreading, linear : stamens longer than 
the perianth, filaments filiform,, anthers dorsifixed ; ovary 
oblong, stigma slightly three-lobed ; fruit a capsule ; seeds 
flattened. — Plants with fleshy, thick leaves, prickly on the 
margin, or with thin and entire leaves, often glaucous ; flowers 
yellowish or greenish, in panicles or spikes. The plants grow 
very slowly and it generally takes a very long time before 
they flower. 
An American genus with 50 species in Mexico, South 
America and the Southern parts of North America. Many are 
in cultivation ; escaped from it and occurring everywhere in 
the Transvaal, is : — 
A. americana , L. Leaves in a dense rosette, very large 
and thick, with sharp prickles on the margin, glabrous and 
glaucous; peduncle 1, very long and stout, covered with 
bracteiform leaves and ending in an enormous panicle of 
yellowish-green flowers. 
A native of Mexico, very important on account of its 
usefulness as a fibre-plant (false Manilahemp), spread over all 
tropical and sub-tropical regions. Known in the Transvaal 
under the names of “ Aloe ” and u Garenhout ” and used as 
a hedge plant and as fodder for cattle in times of drought. 
3. Apodolirton, Baker. (F.C. VI., 197.) 
Perianth with a long tube and lanceolate segments ; 
stamens in two rows, 3 inserted at the throat and 3 below the 
throat of the perianth-tube, filaments very short, anthers 
