Tas. 7712. 
ALOE AByssINIcA. 
Native of Abyssinia. 
Nat. Ord. Lit1racea.—Tribe ALOINE®. 
Genus Axor, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 776.) 
Axoxr (Eualoe) abyssinica; caudice simplici 6 ped. alto ad 3 poll. diam. leviter 
cicatricato, foliis ad 20 apice caulis rosulatis quaquaversis 2-3 ped. longis 
ensiformibus sensim in apicem pollicarem cylindraceum obtusum attenua- 
tis concavis basi 4-5 poll. latis crassitie } poll. medio ad 3 poll. latis late 
viridibus supra basin versus maculatis, dentibus marginalibus ad 4% poll. 
distantibus majusculis deltoideis incurvis viridibus apicibus corneis 
brunneis, pedunculo foliis breviore ramoso, ramis erectis bracteis } poll. 
_longis subulatis membranaceis onustis, racemis ad 6 poll. longis 3-4 poll. 
diam. oblongis densifloris, bracteis floralibus rameis consimilibus, floribus 
pollicaribus nutantibus, pedicellis a poll. longis, perianthio anguste 
campanulato supra tubum integrum leviter constricto primulino (alabastro 
viridi infra medium cinnabarino), segmentis tubo duplo longioribus 
oblongo-lanceolatis apicibus intus aureis recurvis, genitalibus exsertis, 
antheris breviter oblongis ochraceis. 
A. abyssinica, Lam. Encycl. vol. i. p. 86 (excl. syn.). Roem. § Sch. Syst. vol. 
vii. p. 695. Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xviii. fig. 1. Kunth, Enum. Pl. 
vol. iv. p. 521. PA. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. vol. ii. p. 324. Baker in 
Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xviii. (1881) p. 174; 1m Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 467. 
Engl. Hochgebirgsft. Trop. Afr. p. 164. Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
vol, ii. app. IT. pp. 66, 110. 
A. vulgaris, var. abyssinica, DC. Pl. Grasses, sub t. 27; Poir Encycl. Suppl. 
vol. i. p. 294. : 
Aloe abyssinica is a plant of historic interest, having 
been brought to Europe by the celebrated Bruce, on his 
return from Abyssinia in 1771, and was no doubt presented 
by him to Louis XV. of France, for it was first described by 
Lamarck in 1783, from a specimen in the Jardin du Roi, 
given by that traveller. According to Baker, in the “ Flora 
of Tropical Africa,” it has a wide geographical range in 
N.E. tropical Africa, at elevations of three thousand two 
hundred to nine thousand four hundred feet, between 
Suakin and Berber in Nubia, to Erytrea and Abyssinia. In 
the same and in other works the stem is described as short, 
but in the plant here figured it is fully six feet high. The 
A, abyssinica of A. Richard, in his “ Tentamen Flore Abys- 
sinice,’ is cited under it by most authors, but as the 
May lst, 1900, 
