TAB. TOT. peer 
GASTERIA FUSCO-PUNCTATA. 
Native of Cape Colony. 
Nat. Ord. Littace#.—Tribe ALOINES. 
Genus GastertA, Duval; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 775.) 
Gasterta fusco-punctata; breviter caulescens, foliis 20-80 dense rosulatis 
lanceolatis strictis brevibus viridibus maculis copiosis fuscis decoratis 
latere dextero duplicato-marginatis, racemis multis laxis in paniculam 
amplam dispositis, pedicellis brevibus cernuis, bracteis lanceolatis 
minutis, perianthii tubo oblongo ventricoso rubello, limbi lobis linearibus 
viridi tinctis, staminibus inclusis, ovario cylindrico, stylo ovario longiore. 
G. fusco-punctata, Baker in Jonrn. Linn. Soc. vol. xvi. p. 195; Fl. Cap. vol. 
vi. p. 390. 
This is one of the finest of all the Gasterias. In its 
multifarious rosette of long leaves and ample panicle it 
resembles G. Croucheri (Aloe Croucheri, Hook. f. in Bot. 
Mag. tab. 5812), but the flowers are much smaller, and 
the leaves conspicuously spotted with brown. It was 
not known to Salm-Dyck and Haworth, and it is here 
figured for the first time. It was discovered by Mr. Thomas 
Cooper about 1860, but the precise locality is not known. 
Our drawing was made from a plant flowered at Kew last 
July, which has a more compound panicle than the one 
which I first saw in the collection of the late Mr. Wilson 
Saunders at Reigate about the year 1870. In cultivation 
it needs the same treatment as the other members of the 
genus, which contains about fifty species, and is entirely 
restricted to the Cape. ) 
Descr.—Stem shortly produced below the rosette of 
leaves. Leaves twenty or thirty, forming a dense multi- 
farious rosette, lanceolate, a foot or more long, three or 
four inches broad low down, tapering gradually to the 
deltoid-cuspidate apex, very smooth, dull green, with 
copious irregularly scattered superficial brown spots, 
furnished with a conspicuous double border on the right 
hand side, looking upwards from the base. Peduncle with 
panicle three or four feet long. Racemes lax, cylindrical ; 
pedicels short, cernuous; bracts lanceolate, minute. 
Avcust Ist, 18!7. 
