_Aloe Schlechteri_ is found growing on the bare veld. The short stems are decumbent and the rosette of leaves almost at right angles to the stems, giving the plant, when viewed from a little distance, an acaulescent appearance. The plants are invariably found in groups, and the individual plants are so arranged that the group forms a half-circle or sometimes a complete circle on the ground. The inflorescence appears to be always forked. Our illustration was made from the specimens collected by Dr. Borchards. DESCRIPTION:--_Stem_ short decumbent with a dense rosette of leaves. _Leaves_ somewhat incurved, up to 24 cm. long, up to 4 cm. broad near the base, lanceolate, acuminate, ending in a sharp spine, convex beneath, flat or slightly convex above, with the margins covered with prickles and a few prickles on the keel beneath near the apex; prickles about 1·2 cm. apart, straight or slightly incurved. _Inflorescence_ branched into two arms; the common peduncle about 10 cm. long, bluntly 3-angled, naked; peduncle of arms up to lowermost flowers 9 cm. long, covered with a few membranous ovate acuminate bracts; raceme 15 cm. long, many-flowered. _Pedicels_ 8 mm. long, erect. _Youngest flowers_ tubular, erect, becoming later horizontal and at length pendulous and then clavate. _Perianth-tube_ 1·8 cm. long, widening from the base upwards; inner lobes 1·2 cm. long, 8 mm. broad, lanceolate, obtuse, usually 5-nerved; outer lobes 1·6 cm. long, 8 mm. broad, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, concave usually 3-nerved. _Stamens_ 3·5 cm. long, at first included, at length exserted. _Ovary_ 8 mm. long, 3-angled; style 1·6 cm. long, terete; stigma minute (National Herb. 2845). * * * * * PLATE 151.--Fig. 1, flower; Fig. 2, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 3, perianth-segments; Fig. 4, stamen; Fig. 5, style. F.P.S.A., 1924. [Illustration: _152._] PLATE 152. MONTBRETIA CROCOSMAEFLORA. _Transvaal._ * * * * * IRIDACEAE. Tribe IXIEAE. =Montbretia crocosmaeflora=, _Hort._; _Flor. Mag._ n.s. t. 472; _Fl. Cap._ vol. vi. p. 129. * * * * * This plant, commonly seen in South African gardens, is a hybrid between _Tritonia Pottsii_ and _Crocosmia aurea_, and was described from plants which flowered at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in August 1889. As the plant has been described under the generic name of _Montbretia_ in the _Flora Capensis_ we retain the combination here. The plant blooms in Pretoria during the month of April, and furnishes a good supply of cut flowers during a time when they are scarce. Our illustration was made from specimens flowering at the Division of Botany, Pretoria.