DESCRIPTION:--_Inflorescence_ arising in an umbellate manner at apex of stems, up to 11-flowered. _Sepals_ 4 mm. long, 3·5 mm. broad, ovate, acuminate, acute, glabrous. _Corolla-tube_ 3·5 cm. long, cylindric and 1·2 cm. long below, with a subglobose base, then suddenly dilated and narrowed towards the apex, glabrous without, pilose within; lobes 2·2 cm. long, 1·8 cm. broad in the widest part, straight on one side, very convex and crisped on opposite side, subacuminate, acute. _Filament_ 3 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, ovate, with a ciliated hood at the base; anthers 6·7 mm. long, linear with a lanceolate, acute appendage 1·5 mm. long, and a membranous pouch at the base. _Style_ 1·3 cm. long, terete, glabrous; stigma club-shaped covered with a white opaque jelly-like substance; ovary 3·5 mm. long, with a cupular disk at the base (National Herb. 2736). * * * * * PLATE 123.--Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of the flower; Fig. 2, stamen; Fig. 3, portion of style with the stigma; Fig. 4, the 2 carpels with a cupular disk at the base. F.P.S.A., 1924. [Illustration: _124._] PLATE 124. ALOE VERECUNDA. _Transvaal._ LILIACEAE. Tribe ALOINEAE. ALOE, _Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 776. =Aloe verecunda=, _Pole Evans in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr._ vol. v. p. 703. This _Aloe_ is another of the many species from the Transvaal described within recent years by Dr. Pole Evans, and it is here figured for the first time. Our Plate was prepared from plants collected by Mr. D. J. Fouche in the Middleburg District, Transvaal, and which subsequently flowered at the Division of Botany, Pretoria. The specimens on which Dr. Pole Evans based his description were found by Mr. P. J. Pienaar on the Wolkberg, near Haenertsberg, in the Northern Transvaal. In the natural state it usually flowers towards the latter part of December, and the dark red racemes are then very conspicuous. As soon as winter sets in, the leaves wither and fall. DESCRIPTION:--_Stem_ short. _Leaves_ 8-10, distichous, deciduous, 25-35 cm. long, 8-10 mm. broad at the base, narrowly linear, distinctly channelled, rounded at the back, with numerous minute raised white spots at the base, armed along the edges with delicate white teeth 2-7 mm. apart. _Peduncle_ stout, 25 cm. long, clothed with broad ovate shortly cuspidate green empty bracts. _Raceme_ more or less capitate. _Bracts_ 20 mm. long, 15 mm. broad, ovate, acute. _Pedicels_ 25 mm. long. _Perianth_ peach-red to scarlet, greenish towards the apex, 26-30 mm. long, 12 mm. in diameter, straight, very markedly 3-angled, contracted towards the mouth; segments free. _Style_ and _stamens_ not or scarcely exserted (National Herb. 2743). PLATE 124.--Fig. 1, portion of leaf showing white spots; Fig. 2, median longitudinal section of the flower; Fig. 3, outer perianth-segment; Fig. 4, inner perianth-segment; Fig. 5, anther with part of the filament; Fig. 6, top of style showing the simple stigma.