Mr. Stokoe describes it as a plant of straggling growth among loose stones and grass. We have previously figured a species of this genus (Plate 74), and readers are referred to the description there for the principal differences between the genera _Protea_ and _Leucospermum_. The decumbent habit of this species is also found in _Leucospermum hypophyllum_, but is not common in the family. Our plate was prepared from fresh plants forwarded by Mr. Stokoe. DESCRIPTION:--A decumbent plant with long trailing branches. _Branches_ scantily pilose with long hairs. _Leaves_ more or less horizontal or slightly reflexed, 3-5 cm. long, 1·8-2·2 cm. broad at the base, ovate, obtuse with a blunt callus, cordate at the base, pilose and shortly tomentose especially near the base, at length becoming glabrous. _Heads_ solitary, very rarely 3-nate at the ends of the branches, 3-4 cm. in diameter, semiglobose. _Peduncle_ 2 cm. long, covered with numerous barren bracts, tomentose. _Bracts_ 5 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, at the base, ovate, obtuse, sometimes reflexed, pilose outside, glabrous within, ciliate. _Receptacle_ 7 mm. long, 5 mm. in diameter at the base, conical. _Floral-bracts_ 1 cm. long, obovate, shortly awned, attenuate at the base, densely villous outside, glabrous within, ciliate. _Perianth-tube_ 5 mm. long, tubular; lobes 9 mm. long, linear, long pilose; limb 3 mm. long, elliptic, subacuminate, sub-obtuse, pilose without. _Anthers_ 2 mm. long, linear. _Ovary_ 2·5 mm. long, ellipsoid, glabrous; style 1·7 cm. long, terete, glabrous; stigma 1·7 mm. long, conical, shortly subacuminate, swollen at the junction with the style (National Herb. Pretoria 2607). * * * * * PLATE 95.--Fig. 1, flower; Fig. 2, flower showing perianth lobes; Fig. 3, floral bract; Fig. 4, style and stigma; Fig. 5, longitudinal section of receptacle. F.P.S.A., 1923. [Illustration: 96.] PLATE 96. ALOE SAPONARIA. _Cape Province, Natal, Transvaal._ LILIACEAE. Tribe ALOINEAE. ALOE, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 776. =Aloe saponaria=, _Haw. Syn._ 83; _Fl. Cap._ vol. vi. p. 312. This Aloe, known as the common soap-aloe, was introduced into cultivation in Europe early in the eighteenth century, and it still retains its popularity. Three colour varieties are known: one with salmon-coloured flowers, one with red flowers, and one with pale lemon-yellow flowers. The inflorescence in all these varieties may be either simple or branched. The plants are common on the south and east coasts of South Africa.