PLATE 15.--Fig. 1, plant, reduced; Fig. 2, spadix; Fig. 3, ovary.
_Transvaal, Zululand, Portuguese East Africa._
ADENIUM, _R. & S._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. 2, p. 722.
=Adenium multiflorum=, _Klotzch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot._ p. 279, t. xliv., _Fl. Cap._ vol. 4, sect. 1, p. 514.
The specimen from which our illustration was made is growing in the Gardens of the Division of Botany, Pretoria, and was presented by Mr. A. E. Antrobus, Cloud’s End, Louis Trichard, in the Zoutpansberg District. The flowers appeared in September before the leaves, which only made their appearance the following month. The species does very well on a rockery, and when it flowers is a very pleasing sight.
DESCRIPTION:--A plant with a very large tuber just below the ground-level and from which the branches spring. _Branches_ more or less succulent, glabrous. _Leaves_ appearing after the flowers, sub-sessile, 3·5-9 cm. long, 1·5-6·5 cm. broad, obovate, obtuse, narrowed to the base, dark green and very shiny above, pale green and dull beneath, with the mid-rib and lateral veins distinct above, the mid-rib alone prominent beneath. _Inflorescence_ cymose, up to 5-flowered, terminal. _Sepals_ lanceolate, pilose. _Corolla-tube_ about 3 cm. long, 1·2 cm. broad above, tubular below, pilose without and within on the broadened portion; lobes, 1·7-2·5 cm. long, about 1 cm. broad, elliptic-oblong, or obovate, shortly acuminate, acute, with crinkled edges, usually sparsely pubescent on the upper portion, pink, with dark red margins. _Anthers_ densely villous.
PLATE 16.--Fig. 1, plant, reduced; Fig. 2, leaf; Fig. 3, calyx; Fig. 4, stamen; Fig. 5, pistil.
ALOE, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 776.
=Aloe Pienaarii=, _Pole Evans in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr._ vol. v. p. 27, t. vi. vii.
This species was first collected by Mr. P. J. Pienaar at Smit’s Drift, near Pietersburg, in January 1914, where it is very common on and around the isolated granite kopjes, though it also occurs in the open flat country. A number of plants were obtained for the gardens of the Union Buildings at Pretoria, where they have been established, and specimens are also growing in the Aloe collection at the Division of Botany Gardens, Pretoria. The species flowers from May to July.