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Tas. 5210. 
ALOE a.uso-cinctTa. 
White-margined Aloe. 
Nat. Ord. ASPHODELE2®.—HEXANDRIA Monocyntra. 
Gen. Char. Corolla tubuloso-6-fida vel hexapetalo-partita, carnosula, basi nee- 
tarifera, in tubum connivens; Jimbo regulari, patulo, vel recurvo-bilabiato ; 
daciniis ligulatis, exterioribus interiores aquales vel longiores imbricatim obtegen- 
tibus. Stamina hypogyna, assurgentia, tubo eequalia, vel exserta. Stylus exser- 
tus v. subnullus, trisuleus. Stigma simplex, v. 3, minuta, replicata. Capsula 
membranacea, scariosa, rotunde vel acute trigona, 3-locularis, 8-valvis, valvis 
medio septigeris. Semina numerosa, biserialia, subrotundo-complanata, v. tri- 
gona, alata angulosave. Gawl. 
ALOE albo-cincta; caule 2~-3-pedali subarboreo erasso simplici, foliis magnis 
12-16-uncialibus lato-lanceolatis sensim acuminatis crassis integerrimis 
cartilagineo-rubro- v. albo-marginatis glaucis obscure striatis lineari-macu- 
latisque, pedunculo seu scapo subbipedali apice paniculatim patenti-cymoso, 
bracteis ad basin ramorum, floribus racemosis omnibus etiam ante anthesin 
pendulis clavatis rubro-aurantiacis basi ventricosis. 
ALOE albo-cincta. Haworth, Suppl. Pl. Succul. p. 43. Ram. et Sch. Syst. 
Veget.v. 7. p. 698. Kth. Enum. Plant. v. 4. p. 525, 
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If the African Aloes have lost caste among cultivators of the 
present day, there are few, we think, who could have seen the 
present species, as we saw it in the summer of the present 
year, in Mr. Wilson Saunders’s succulent-house at Hillfield, who 
would not deem it highly deserving of a place in their green- 
house. It is the handsomest we know of the genus by far, 
striking in its foliage, and still more so in its drooping flowers, 
which form a spreading, compound, almost umbellate cyme, of a 
rich yellowish-red colour. Our friend has long had it in culti- 
vation under the name here given, and it seems quite correctly 
so; but this is the first instance known of the flowering of the 
plant. Had Haworth been acquainted with the inflorescence, 
he would never have made the remark, “Fortasse est mere 
junior 4. striate (A. paniculate, Jacg.).” Myr. Wilson Saunders 
OTCOBER Ist, 1860. 
