Tas. 6520. 
ALOE GREENII. 
Native probably of the Cape. 
Nat. Ord. Lizracem.—Tribe ALOINER. 
Genus Atoz, Linn. ; (Kunth Enum. vol. iv. p. 492.) 
Aton Greenii; breviter caulescens, caule simplici, foliis 10-12 dense rosulatis 
lanceolatis sesquipedalibus viridibus obscure verticaliter lineatis et maculis 
copiosis oblongis albidis confluentibus irregulariter transversaliter seriatis 
decoratis, pedunculo subpedali, panicule ramis strictis 5-7, racemis oblongis 
‘vel demum cylindricis, pedicellis flore subtriplo brevioribus, bracteis lanceolatis 
acuminatis pedicello subsequilongis, perianthi pallide rubri 15 lin. longi tubo 
medio insigniter constricto, segmentis oblongis tubo 2-3-plo_brevioribus, 
genitalibus demum perianthio subequilongis. 
A. Greenii, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. ined. 
This is a well-marked new species of Aloe of the group 
Picte, which we have for some time cultivated at Kew. 
‘All that I can make out for certain about its history is 
that it was received under the name which I have adopted 
from Mr. Wilson Saunders, and that this name was given 
to it by Mr. T. Cooper, but that it is not one of the plants 
which the latter collected in his travels in Cape Colony, 
which yielded so many interesting discoveries in this set of 
plants. In the Picte group of Aloes the present plant may 
be readily distinguished by its elongated racemes and by 
the strong construction of the perianth-tube at the middle. 
Our plate was drawn from a specimen that flowered in the 
Succulent House at Kew in October, 1879. 2 
Descr. Well-grown plants furnished with a short simple 
stem below the rosette of leaves. Leaves twelve or fifteen 
in a dense rosette, lanceolate, fifteen to eighteen inches 
long, three inches broad in the lower part, narrowed 
eradually from two-thirds of the way down to a long point, 
fiat in the lower half on the face to a late stage, a quarter 
or a third of an inch thick in the centre, bright green, with 
ocToBER Ist, 1880. 
