_Cyrtanthus_ from the Barberton District of the Transvaal. According to
Mr. G. J. Hofmeyr, B.Sc., of the Forest Department, who collected the
flowers, the plants are found growing in long grass at Kaapse Hoop. The
plant is subsocial, and forms conspicuous pink patches in the veld. Mr.
Hofmeyr informs us that the flowers at Barberton are scarlet, and not
alizams pink (R. C. S), as in the Kaapse Hoop plants.
The species was first collected by Mr. E. E. Galpin, F.L.S., amongst
rocks on Berea Ridge, near Barberton, in 1889. He describes the flowers
as scarlet, dusted with gold. It flowers during the months of July and
August.
_C. Galpini_ falls into the same section of the genus as _C. helictus_,
which we figured on Plate 99.
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.
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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._
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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).
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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).
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PLATE 160.--Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower; Fig. 2,
perianth-segments.
F.P.S.A., 1924.
INDEX TO VOLUME IV.
PLATE
ALOE CHOKTOLIRIOIDES, 160
ALOE PEGLERAE, 149
ALOE PETEICOLA, 155
ALOE SCHLECHTERI, 151
ALOE VERECUNDA, 124
ANOIGANTHUS BREVIFLORUS, 144
ANSELLIA GIGANTEA, 122
BURCHELLIA BUBALINA, 145
CEROPEGIA AMPLIATA, 140
CEROPEGIA SANDERSONI, 143
COTYLEDON WICKENSII, 154
CRASSULA PORTULACEAE, 156
CYRTANTHUS GALPINII, 159
DIPLOCYATHA CILIATA, 137
EULOPHIA LEONTOGLOSSA, 135
EUPHORBIA COOPERI, 157
GLADIOLUS LUDWIGII, 125
HABENARIA FOLIOSA, 130
HAEMANTHUS KATHABINAE, 136
LACHENALIA PENDULA, 158
MIMETES ARGENTEA, 128
MONTBRETIA CROCOSMAEFLORA, 152
NERINE FLEXUOSA, 139
NERINE FRITHII, 132
NERINE LUCIDA, 134
OXALIS LUPINIFOLIUS, 153
PACHYPODIUM SAUNDERSII, 123
PELARGONIUM PULVERULENTUM, 146
POLYXENA ENSIFOLIA, 129
PROTEA ROUPPELLIAE, 133
PSEUDOBAECKEA VIRGATA, 150
RICHARDIA MELANOLEUCA, 141
STAPELIA FLAVOPURPUREA, 121
STRUMARIA TRUNCATA, 127
SUTERA GRANDIFLORA, 131
THUNBERGIA ALATA, 148
THUNBERGIA NATALENSIS, 147
URGINEA BURKEI, 138
URGINEA MACROCENTRA, 142
VELTHEIMIA ROODEAE, 126