The flowering plants of South Africa; vol. 2

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THE FLOWERING PLANTS OF
                             SOUTH AFRICA.

 A MAGAZINE CONTAINING HAND-COLOURED FIGURES WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE
             FLOWERING PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO SOUTH AFRICA.

                               EDITED BY

            I. B. POLE EVANS, C.M.G., M.A., D.Sc., F.L.S.,

     Chief, Division of Botany and Plant Pathology, Department of
  Agriculture, Pretoria; and Director of the Botanical Survey of the
                        Union of South Africa.

                               VOL. II.

                            [Illustration]

         The veld which lies so desolate and bare
         Will bloom into cities white and fair,
         And pinnacles will pierce the desert air,
         And sparkle in the sun.
                R. C. MACFIE’S “EX UNITATE VIRES.”

                                LONDON:

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                             SOUTH AFRICA:

              THE SPECIALITY PRESS OF SOUTH AFRICA, LTD.

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                                 1922

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                                  TO
                        SENATOR THE HONOURABLE
                           CHARLES G. SMITH
                                  OF
                            DURBAN, NATAL,

               TO WHOSE GENEROSITY BOTANICAL SCIENCE IN
              SOUTH AFRICA IS MUCH INDEBTED, THIS VOLUME
               OF “THE FLOWERING PLANTS OF SOUTH AFRICA”
                       IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED.

                     DIVISION OF BOTANY, PRETORIA,
                          _September, 1922_.

[Illustration: _41._

K. A. Lansdell del.]

PLATE 41.

ALOE WICKENSII.

_Transvaal._

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LILIACEAE. Tribe ALOINEAE.

ALOE, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 776.

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=Aloe Wickensii=, _Pole Evans in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr._ vol. v. p. 29,
Pls. 8, 9.

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This is one of the most beautiful and showy of the South Africa species
of _Aloe_. Specimens were collected by Messrs. Wickens and Pienaar in
M‘Phathlele’s Location in the Northern Transvaal, in January, 1914. The
species is also found widely distributed in the Oliphants River
Bushveld. It is now established in the Garden of the Division of Botany,
Pretoria, and in the latter part of July and August when in flower is a
source of great admiration to visitors.

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The flowering plants of South Africa; vol. 2

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