from very imperfect material, that the Natal and Kaffrarian 
plants were distinct species, but as further information has 
accumulated, this view has been abandoned, and our present 
idea is that there is but one species in the west, Aloe 
dichotoma, and one in the east, for which the name Aloe 
Bainesii has been maintained, both with a wide latitudinal 
range. Since Mr. Dyer’s paper was written, Mr. Roland 
Trimen sent to England in 1879 a supply of flowers of the 
two species preserved in spirit; and now we have Professor 
Macowan’s sketch, and may be considered to know the 
eastern plant quite fully. The entire plant in our plate is 
copied from a photograph by Mr. Barnard of Cape Town, 
and the remainder from a coloured drawing by Mr. H. 
Merstall, both communicated by the director, Professor 
Macowan. 
Descr. A tree, attaining a height of forty or sixty feet. 
Trunk, in a specimen measured by the Rey. R. Baur, 
sixteen feet in circumference three feet from the ground, 
forking low down, and dividing into numerous erect 
branches, with a smooth whitish epidermis, each bearing a 
rosette of spreading leaves at the tip. Spread of the crown 
in the plants drawn by Mr. Baines in the painting now over 
one of the fireplaces in the No. 1 Museum at Kew, fifteen 
feet. Leaves ensiform, two or three feet long in the young 
plant, much shorter in the rosettes of the mature tree, two 
or three inches broad a little above the base, narrowed 
very gradually to the apex, green with only a slight 
glaucous tinge, channelled down the face, margined with 
small spreading horny deltoid prickles. Inflorescence a 
panicle of several racemes issuing from the centre of the 
rosette of leaves, with a short very stout woody peduncle 
and a corrugated rachis nearly an inch in diameter; 
pedicels very short, red, articulated at the apex ; bracts 
minute. Perianth oblong, bright rose-red, an inch and a 
half long, half an inch in diameter ; segments about as long 
as the tube, much imbricated, spreading and tinged with 
green at the tip. Stamens exserted half an inch beyond 
the tip of the perianth; anthers small, oblong. Style 
exserted a little beyond the stamens.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, The whole plant, from a phot i 
> 4 photograph taken in the Cape Botanic Garden; 
2, a leaf, about half the natural size; 3, peduncle; and 4, a alent both rather 
less than natural size; 5, a single flower, natural size. 
