=Aloe Peglerae=, _Schonl. in Records Albany Mus._ vol. i. p. 120. * * * * * _Aloe Peglerae_ is quite a common plant in parts of the Transvaal, and may be found in quantities on the stony hills of the Magaliesberg round Pretoria. The species was first described by Dr. S. Schönland in 1903 from specimens collected by Miss Alice Pegler near Rustenburg. The peculiar lax arrangement of the leaves is very characteristic, and Miss Pegler not inaptly compared its appearance to a loose cabbage. In the description accompanying Plate 107 (_Aloe comosa_) we described the method in which the flowers mature. _Aloe Peglerae_, as far as we have observed, is an exception to this general rule, as the style is exserted with the filaments and does not wait until the filaments are withdrawn, and the perianth withers before protruding. Our plate was prepared from specimens which flowered at the Division of Botany, Pretoria. DESCRIPTION:--_Plant_ almost acaulescent with a dense rosette of leaves. _Leaves_ curved, about 28 cm. long, 5·5 cm. broad, below lanceolate, ending in a short spine, almost flat on the upper surface, slightly convex on the lower surface, faintly keeled and spiny on the back in the uppermost third, with the margins spiny; the spines on lower portion of leaf about 1 mm. long and about 5 mm. apart, becoming 5 mm. long and 1·5 cm. apart in the upper part of the leaf. _Peduncle_ solitary from the middle of the leaf rosette, about 1·2 cm. in diameter and covered with ovate long-acuminate erect membranous bracts. _Flower spike_ about 18 cm. long, up to 8 cm. in diameter; flowers at first reddish, becoming greenish-white at maturity. _Outer perianth-segments_ 2·5 cm. long, 6 mm. broad, oblanceolate, with the apex slightly recurved, 3-nerved; inner segments 2 cm. long, 8 mm. broad, oblong, 1-nerved. _Stamens_ at length long exserted; filaments dark purple above, greenish below, linear. _Ovary_ 5 mm. long, ellipsoid; style 4·2 cm. long, cylindric, exserted with the stamens; stigma small (_National Herb. Pretoria_, No. 2846). * * * * * PLATE 149.--Fig. 1, upper portion of leaf; Fig. 2, flower; Fig. 3, median longitudinal section of a flower. F.P.S.A., 1924. [Illustration: _150._] PLATE 150. PSEUDOBAECKEA VIRGATA. _Cape Province._ * * * * * BRUNIACEAE. PSEUDOBAECKIA, _Nied. in Engl. and Prantl. Naturl. Pflanzenfam._ vol. iii. 2a, p. 136 (1891). * * * * * =Pseudobaeckia virgata=, _Nied. l. c._; _Dummer in Journ. Bot._ 1912, Suppl. 2. _Brunia virgata_, Brogn.; _Fl. Cap._ vol. ii. p. 315. * * * * *