Tas. 6848, 
ALOE Batyesn. 
Native of Natal and Kaffraria. 
Nat. Ord. Litracrem.—Tribe ALOINER. 
Genus ALOE, Linn. 3 (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. iii. p. 776.) 
Ator Painesii; arborea, 40-60-pedalis, trunco erecto copiose ramoso crassitie, 
4—6-pedali, foliis ad ramorum apices dense rosulatis ensiformibus 2-3-pedalibus 
viridibus leviter glauco tinctis facie canaliculatis margine acuteis parvis 
patulis deltoideis corneis armatis, racemis densis oblongis paniculatis, pedun- 
culis brevibus rachibusque valde incrassatis, pedicellis brevissimis apice articu- 
latis, bracteis minutis, perianthio oblongo splendide rubro sesquipollicari, 
segmentis oblongis valde imbricatis tubo subzequilongis apice patulis viridibus, 
staminibus styloque conspicue exsertis. 
A. Bainesii, Dyer in Gard. Chron. 1874, p. 568, figs. 119, 120; Baker in Journ. 
Linn. Soe, vol. xviii. p. 178. 
A. Barbere, Dyer loc, cit. fig. 122. 
A. Zeyheri, Hort. non Salmdyck. 
This species is distinctly and decidedly the finest of all 
the one hundred and fifty different kinds of Aloe. 
Although we have had it at Kew for at least twenty years, 
its growth is so slow that it is likely to be many years 
more before it reaches the flowering stage, and we are 
indebted to Professor Macowan for the materials upon 
which the present plate is founded, a coloured drawing and 
a photograph of a fine plant, which is one of the chief 
objects of interest in the Cape Botanic Garden. For many 
years we had a young plant at Kew under the unpublished 
name of Aloe Zeyheri. In 1874, Mr. Thiselton Dyer took 
great pains to work out the neglected subject of the Cape 
tree-aloes. The result of his investigations was published 
in a paper, illustrated by a series of woodcuts, in the 
**Gardener’s Chronicle.” In this he explained as fully as 
the material then obtained would allow the differences 
between the tree-aloe of the eastern provinces and the old 
well-known Aloe dichotoma of the west, of which Paterson 
gave a figure as long ago as 1789; citing extracts from 
the letters of Mr. Baines and the Rev. R. Baur as to its 
habit and localities. At that time we supposed, judging 
DEC. Ist, 1885. 
