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Title: The Flowering Plants of South Africa; vol. 2/3
Release Date: January 19, 2021 [eBook #64336]
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FLOWERING PLANTS OF SOUTH AFRICA; VOL. 2/3
***A MAGAZINE CONTAINING HAND-COLOURED FIGURES WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO SOUTH AFRICA.
I. B. POLE EVANS, C.M.G., M.A., D.Sc., F.L.S.,
Chief, Division of Botany and Plant Pathology, Department of Agriculture, Pretoria; and Director of the Botanical Survey of the Union of South Africa.
The veld which lies so desolate and bare Will bloom into cities white and fair, And pinnacles will pierce the desert air, And sparkle in the sun. R. C. MACFIE’S “EX UNITATE VIRES.”
THE SPECIALITY PRESS OF SOUTH AFRICA, LTD.
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TO SENATOR THE HONOURABLE CHARLES G. SMITH OF DURBAN, NATAL,
TO WHOSE GENEROSITY BOTANICAL SCIENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA IS MUCH INDEBTED, THIS VOLUME OF “THE FLOWERING PLANTS OF SOUTH AFRICA” IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED.
DIVISION OF BOTANY, PRETORIA, _September, 1922_.
ALOE, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 776.
=Aloe Wickensii=, _Pole Evans in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr._ vol. v. p. 29, Pls. 8, 9.
This is one of the most beautiful and showy of the South Africa species of _Aloe_. Specimens were collected by Messrs. Wickens and Pienaar in M‘Phathlele’s Location in the Northern Transvaal, in January, 1914. The species is also found widely distributed in the Oliphants River Bushveld. It is now established in the Garden of the Division of Botany, Pretoria, and in the latter part of July and August when in flower is a source of great admiration to visitors.