Tab. 7624. 



ALjOE LEPTOPHYLLA. 

 Native of Cape Colony. 



Nat. Ord. Liliace.e. — Tribe Aloises. 

 Genus Aloe, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 776.) 



Aloe leptopliylla ; caudice simplici, foliia dense rosulatis recurvatis lanceolatia 

 acnminatis pro genere tenuibus viridibus punctia_ et lineis albidis copiosis 

 decoratis dentibus marginalibus crebria magnis deltoideis, pedunculo 

 simplici stricto erecto foliis longiore, racemo congesto capitato, pedicellia 

 longis, bracteis parvis lanceolato-deltoideis, perianthio aurantiaco tubo 

 subcylindrico supra ovarium constricto, lobis linearibua tubo brevioribus 

 apice viridibus, staminibus styloque brevitev exsertis. 



A. leptophylla, JV. E. Brown, ex Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xviii. p. 165 ; 

 Journ. Bot. 1889, p. 44 ; Fl. Cap. vol. vi. p. 313. 



This fine Aloe was collected by Mr. Thomas Cooper in 

 his travels in South Africa, about the year 1860, in the 

 province of Worcester, not far from the town of Worcester, 

 which is about eight hundred feet above sea-level. It is 

 nearly allied to A. latifolia, Haworth, but the leaves are 

 thinner in texture than in any other species of the group 

 Maculatse, which is conspicuous for its copiously spotted 

 leaves. The Kew plant, from which our drawing was made, 

 was purchased from Mr. Cooper in 1897, and flowered in 

 the Succulent House in April, 1898. 



D esC r. — Stem reaching a length of half a foot, and a 

 diameter of two inches below the rosette of leaves. Leaves 

 twelve to twenty in a rosette, recurved, lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, nine to twelve inches long, three or four inches 

 broad, green, or tinged with purple, copiously spotted and 

 striped with white, thinner in texture than in any of its 

 allies; marginal teeth large, close, deltoid. Peduncle 

 simple, stiffly erect, longer than the leaves. Raceme dense, 

 capitate; pedicels an inch or more long; bracts small, 

 lanceolate, deltoid. Perianth sub-cylindrical, an inch and 

 a half long, bright orange-yellow, tipped with green ; tube 

 constricted above the ovary ; lobes linear, shorter than the 

 tube. Stamens and style slightly exerted. — J. G. Baker, 



Fig. 1, A flower ; 2, front view of (stamen ; 3, back view of stamen ; 4, pistil, 

 all enlarged ; 5, whole plant, much reduced. 

 Novembek 1st, 1898. 



