Our plate was partly prepared from Galpin’s specimens (_Galpin_ 409) and partly from living flowers collected by Mr. Hofmeyr. DESCRIPTION:--_Bulb_ ovoid, 2·5 to 3 mm. in diameter. _Leaves_ appearing before the flowers, up to 8 cm. long, 2 mm. broad above, narrowing to a filiform portion below, with a single rib, glabrous. _Peduncle_ 10 to 19 cm. long, 3 mm. in diameter, terete, very gradually narrowing upwards. _Bracts_ 2·5 to 3 cm. long, scarious, linear, acuminate. _Flowers_ solitary, more rarely 2-nate. _Perianth-tube_ with a narrow-cylindric lower portion 1·5 cm. long, broadening out into a funnel-shaped portion 2 cm. long and 1·3 cm. in diameter at the throat; lobes 2 cm. long, 7 to 9 mm. broad, oblong, bluntly apiculate, with a very small tuft of glandular hairs on the apex of three of them. _Stamens_ all arising from the base of the widened portion of the perianth-tube; filaments of unequal lengths and attached to the perianth-tube for different distances, giving the stamens the appearance of being in two rows; anthers oblong, versatile. _Ovary_ 5 mm. long, ellipsoid; style 3-8 cm. long, filiform; stigmas 3 mm. long, recurved, papillose on the upper side. * * * * * PLATE 159.--Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of a flower; Fig. 2, portion of a perianth lobe showing apiculus and tuft of glandular hairs. Fig. 3, ovary. F.P.S.A., 1924. [Illustration: _160._] PLATE 160. ALOE CHORTOLIRIOIDES. _Transvaal._ * * * * * LILIACEAE. Tribe ALOINEAE. ALOE, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 776. =Aloe chortolirioides=, _Berger in Engl. Pflanzenreich, Liliac-Asphodel-Aloin_. 171 (1908). * * * * * This graceful little _Aloe_, so far as we are aware, is confined to the Barberton District of the Transvaal. The plant has a very different habit from most species in the genus, inasmuch as it grows in large tufts, and the short stem, covered with the membranous leaf-bases, very much resembles that of a _Vellozia_. We are indebted to Mr. Geo. Thorncroft of Barberton for the specimens from which the plate was prepared. DESCRIPTION:--_Stems_ tufted, covered with the remains of the leaf-bases; leaves 10 to 20 cm. long, linear from a dilated base, channelled, with the margins lined with small spines. _Peduncle_ 16 cm. long, bearing, almost to the base, membranous ovate awned bracts. _Floral-bracts_ 1·4 cm. long, membranous, ovate, long-acuminate, distinctly veined. _Pedicels_ articulating at the apex and persistent. _Perianth_ 3 cm. long, with a cylindric tube and 1-nerved lobes. _Stamens_ exserted. _Style_ 4 cm. long, filiform, long-exserted in old flowers (National Herb. 2733). * * * * * PLATE 160.--Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2, perianth-segments. F.P.S.A., 1924. INDEX TO VOLUME IV. PLATE