Tas. 7667. 
ALOE Scuweinerurrutt, 
Native of tropical N. EB. Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Liniacka.—Tribe Atomwes. 
Genus Axog, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 776.) 
ALOok (Eualoe) Schweinfurthii; acaulis v. caulescens, foliis perplurimis con- 
fertis incurvo-erectis 2-25-pedalibus a basi compressa biconvexa 7 poll. 
_ lata sensim in apicem angustatis medium versus 2 poll. latis plano- 
-convexis pallide viridibus marginibus rubris et aculeis brevibus remotis 
deltoideis incurvis rubris armatis, scapis pedalibus, inflorescentiwe pani- 
culate ramis ascendentibus simplicibus robustis fusco-rubris apicibus 
floriferis infimis 6-pollicaribus, omnibus bracteis parvis late ovatis 
acuminatis conspersis, floruam racemulis 3-4-pollicaribus erectis densi- 
floris, pedicellis gracilibus erectis apice decurvis, bracteis iis ramuloram 
consimilibus, floribus 1} poll, longis pendulis, perianthio cylindraceo recto 
v. lente curvo basi rotundato infra medium corallino dein aureo, lobis 
parvis ovatis recurvis, antheris exsertis flavidis, ovario oblongo, stylo recto 
deflexo, stigmate punctiforme, capsula parva late oblonga obtusa obtuse 
trigona, valvis coriaceis transverse reticulatis, seminibus parvis late alatis. 
A. Schweinfurthii, Baker in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xviii. (1885) p.175; in Fi. 
Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 467. Gard. Chron, 1898, vol. i. p. 197, fig. 76. : 
Aloe Schweinfurthii is certainly the handsomest of all 
the species hitherto figured in this work. Of these its 
nearest tropical African ally is A. Kirkii, Baker, tab. 
_ 7386, which differs conspicuously in the short pedicels of 
the flowers, and in the spines of the leaves. Amongst the 
South African species it comes nearest to A. virens, Haw. 
tab. 1355, a much smaller plant, with a simple raceme, 
leaves dorsally tubercled, and bright red flowers, with 
perianth-segments longer than the tube. 
The discoverer of this stately plant is Dr. Schwein- 
furth, who found it in the granite hill of Makporvu, in 
the Nyam Nyam county of N.E. tropical Africa, lat. 4° 45’ 
N., long. 28° 30° E.; that is on the confines of the Bahr el 
Ghazal. 
It was described originally by Mr. Baker, from dried 
specimens (distributed by its discoverer, Ser. iil. n. 167 of 
his Herbarium) as being caulescent; with close set mar- 
Auvueust lst, 1899. 
