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20. A. lateritia, Zngl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. ©. 140. Caudex very short. 
Leaves very thick, lanceolate, 9-10 in. long, 2 in. broad low down, 
mottled with white linear spots; teeth rather large, deltoid, with a 
horny tip. Inflorescence panicled ; flowers aggregated at the end of the 
‘branches ` bracts small, lanceolate, acuminate ; lower pedicels 1 in. long. 
Perianth slightly curved, 14 in. long; segments brick-red, as long as the 
‘tube, with a narrow orange margin. Stamens included. Capsule oblong, 
1 in. long, transversely rugose. Seeds ovoid, with a wing } in. broad. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro ; at Rombo, 4000-5000 ft., 
Volkens, 404 ! 
No specimen at Kew. 
21. A. Schimperi, Todaro, Hort. Bot. Panorm.i.70,t.16. Caudex 
short, simple. Leaves densely rosulate, ovate-lanceolate, 1-14 ft. long, 
‘6-7 in. broad low down, glaucous green, distinctly lineate, obscurely 
spotted, concave above the middle, furnished with a thin reddish horny 
border; teeth crowded, irregular, minute, deltoid. Peduncle stout, 
2-3 ft. long, much branched. Raceme short, crowded ; pedicels 1-14 in. 
long ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 4 in. long. Perianth bright red, 18-21 lin. 
long, constricted above the ovary; segments rather shorter than the 
tube. Stamens slightly exserted. Capsule oblong-cylindrical, nearly 
l in. long.—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 159; Schweinf. in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 70, 110. A. lineata, var. latifolia, A. Br. in 
Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1869, 7. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: near Halai, 8400 ft., Schweinfurth, 152! Kohaito Plateau, 
8400-8700 ft., Schweinfurth, 153! Saganeiti, in the Goua Gorge, near Addingfou, 
Schweinfurth & Riva, 722! 1330! 
Introduced into cultivation in 1869. 
22. A. concinna, Baker. Caudex short, simple. Leaves laxly 
rosulate, lanceolate, 3-4 in. long, 1 in. broad low down, tapering 
gradually to the channelled recurved tip, green on both surfaces with 
copious white blotches, not lineate; marginal teeth large, close, deltoid. 
Peduncle simple, compressed, rather longer than the leaves. Raceme 
oblong, moderately dense, 2 in. long; pedicels short, ascending ; bracts 
lanceolate, as long as the pedicels. Perianth bright red, 1 in. long ; 
tube very short. Stamens as long as the perianth. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, cultivated specimen, Kirk ! 
Described from a plant that flowered at Kew, April 1895. 
23. A. zebrina, Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 264. 
‘Caudex simple, } ft. long. Leaves densely rosulate, spreading, lanceolate, 
3-1 ft. long, 1—2 in. broad low down, glaucous, copiously spotted with 
white on both sides; marginal teeth deltoid, }-{ in. long. Peduncle 
3-4 ft. long including the inflorescence, panicled ; racemes lax, cylin- 
‘drical, 3-1 ft. long; pedicels }-} in. long; bracts small, lanceolate. 
Perianth brick-red, 3-1 in. long; tube short. Stamens as long as the 
perianth ; style exserted. Capsule oblong-trigonous, 1 in. long.—Baker 
in Journ. Linn. Soe, xviii. 167. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Barra do Bengo, Loanda, and Lebongo, Welwitsch, 
3720! 8721! 3722! 3724! 3725! 
