Aloe. | CXL. LILIACEH (BAKER). 469 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 178, and in Fl. Cap. vi. 325; Schinz in 
‘Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 38. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland; near Usakos, 
2700 ft., Marloth, 1439. j 
Also south of the Tropic in Namaqualand. 
Imperfectly known Species. 
51. A, megalacantha, Baker. Leaves lanceolate, 14 ft. or more 
long, 3-4 in. broad low down, tapering gradually to the point, thick, 
rigid; marginal teeth large, spreading, crowded, horny, deltoid, 4 in. 
long. Flowers only seen detached. Perianth cylindrical, 1 in. long ; 
tube short, campanulate; segments long, linear. Stamens included. 
Style exserted. 
Wile Land. Somaliland, Riva, 905! 
No specimen at Kew. 
7. HAWORTHIA, Duval; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 777. 
Perianth-tube oblong ; limb bilabiate ; segments oblong, the 3 upper 
reflexing more than the 3 lower. Stamens 6, shorter than the perianth, 
hypogynous ; anthers oblong, versatile, dehiscing down the face. Ovary 
ovoid, 3-celled ; ovules many in a cell; style subulate; stigma small, 
capitate. Capsule loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds much compressed, not 
winged ; testa black ; albumen fleshy ; embryo straight.—Leaves fleshy, 
usually congested into a basal rosette, often marked with lines and 
white chalky dots. Peduncle simple or forked. Flowers small, white, 
usually laxly racemose. 
Species 60, the others all South African. 
1. H. angolensis, Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 263. 
Rootstock thickened, covered with ovate-lanceolate scales 1}-14 in. 
long. Leaves 6-12 in a dense rosette, erect, linear, glaucous, flattish, 
2-3 in. long; marginal teeth minute. Peduncle slender, } ft. long. 
Raceme lax, subspicate, 4-5 in. long; flowers erecto-patent ; bracts 
ovate-cuspidate. Perianth 4 in. long; lobes keeled with green, much 
shorter than the tube.— Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xviii. 210. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilia; subtemperate region, in sandy woods, Wel- 
witsch ! 
8. SCHIZOBASIS, Baker; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 786. 
Perianth campanulate, polyphyllous, persistent ; segments oblong, 
subequal, spreading. Stamens 6, shorter than the perianth, inserted at 
the base of the segments; filaments filiform or slightly flattened, 
glabrous; anthers oblong, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 
globose, 3-celled ; ovules few in a cell; style subulate; stigma minute, 
