Tas. 7399. 
ALOE pracuystTacHys. 
Native of Zanzibar. 
Nat. Ord. Lintacrm.—Tribe ALOINER. 
Genus Atos, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 776.) 
Ator brachystachys; caudice elongato simplici, foliis dense rosulatis ensifor- 
mibus sesquipedalibus vel bipedalibus pallide viridibus immaculatis, 
aculeis marginalibus deltoideis concoloribus magnitudine mediocribus, 
pedunculo flexuoso elongato, racemo denso simplici, pedicellis elongatis 
ascendentibus apice articulatis, bracteis orbicularibus parvis, perianthio 
cylindrico pallide rubro apice viridi, lobis lingulatis tubo brevioribus, 
staminibus demum breviter exsertis. 
This new Aloe was sent by Sir Jchn Kirk in 1884 to 
the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Zanzibar. It flowered for 
the first time in the Succulent House in January, 1894, 
and proved to be a new species. It belongs to the true 
Aloes, with a long caudex, and dense rosette of ensiform 
leaves, Its nearest allies are A. abyssinica (Bot. Mag. t. 
6620), and the Angolan A. littoralis, Baker, which has 
not yet been brought into cultivation. The number of 
Aloes known in Tropical Africa has increased very largely 
of late years. 
Descr.—Caudex long, slender, erect, simple. Leaves 
about twenty, crowded together at the top of the stem, 
all except the youngest drooping, ensiform, one and a half 
or two feet long, two inches broad above the dilated base, 
narrowed very gradually to the point, bright green, smooth » 
on both surfaces, unspotted, a quarter of an inch thick in 
the middle; marginal prickles deltoid, middle-sized, not 
brown at the tip in the cultivated plant. Peduncle simple, 
very flexuose, about as long as the leaves. Haceme dense, 
simple, oblong, half a foot long; pedicels ascending, an 
inch long, articulated at the tip; bracts orbicular, much 
Fesrvary Ist, 1895. 
