Aloe. | CXL. LILIACEZ (BAKER). 463 
segments shorter than the tube. Stamens as long as the perianth.— 
cial in Journ. Linn. Soe. xviii. 165; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 
Nile Land. Mountains of Abyssinia, alt. 6000 ft., Schimper, 798. 
No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 
Introduced into cultivation in Europe in 1878. 
The native country of the allied 4. Pavii, Terrac, in Boll. Ort. Palerm. i, (1897) 
68, is unknown. 
28. A. obscura, Miller, Gard. Dict. edit. viii. No. 6. Stem 4-1 ft. 
long below the rosette of leaves. Leaves 15-30 in a dense rosette, 
lanceolate, 1 ft. long, 2-3 in. broad, lineate and copiously spotted ; 
marginal teeth deltoid-cuspidate, -4—4 in. long. Peduncle simple or 
forked, 14-2 ft. long. Raceme dense, cylindrical, 4—1 ft. long; lower 
pedicels 1-1} in. long; bracts deltoid-cuspidate, much shorter than the 
pedicels. Perianth bright red, 14-1} in. long ; segments shorter than 
the tube. Stamens slightly exserted.—Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 
App. iii. 39; Baker in Fl. Cap. vi. 314. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Amboland; Oshando, Schinz, 
345. 
Also in South Africa. 
No specimen from Tropical Africa at Kew. 
29. A. platyphylla, Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 264. 
Caudex simple, 4—1 ft. long. Leaves densely rosulate, ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, glaucous green, densely lineate and spotted with white, 
A1 ft. long, 24-3 in. broad low down; marginal teeth crowded, horny, 
deltoid, 4 in. long. Peduncle 3-4 ft. long including the panicled in- 
florescence ; racemes lax, cylindrical, 4—1 ft. long; pedicels 4 in. long ; 
bracts lanceolate. Perianth red, 1} in. long; tube short. Stamens 
not exserted.—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 167, 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; frequent in dry thickets, Welwitsch ! 
No specimen at Kew. 
30. A. tenuifolia, Zam. Encyc. i. 87% Caudex short, simple. 
Leaves densely rosulate, lanceolate, 12-15 in. long, 2—24 in. broad 
below the middle, narrowed gradually to the apex, pale green, not 
lineate, 1-1 in. thick in the middle, flat below the tip, tinged with red- 
brown, variegated with copious small confluent oblong whitish blotches ; 
marginal teeth crowded, unequal, small, deltoid. Flowers unknown.— 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 163. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Zanguebar, Kirk ! 
Described from a living plant sent to Kew in 1877. 
No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 
31. A. Hildebrandtii, Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 6981. Leaves laxly 
disposed on a simple erect stem 14-2 ft. long, lanceolate, amplexicaul, 
under 1 ft. long, 14-2 in. broad low down, glaucous green, with a few 
white spots; marginal teeth small, deltoid-cuspidate. Peduncle 14 ft. 
long including the panicle produced from the axis of one of the upper 
