Tab. 7882. 

 aloe ■ kubroviolacea. 



Native of Southern Arahia. 



Nat. Ord. LarACE*. — Tribe Aloineje. 

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



Aloe (Eualoe) rubroviolacea; caule crasso monocephalo, foliis dense rusuktib 

 bipedalibus patenti-recurvis subfalcatis late lanceolato-ensiformibus ad 

 | poll, crassis glauco-viridibus pruinoso-violacea supra planiusculis 

 subtus convexis marginibus corneis rubris remote spinoso-dentatis 

 dentibus £ poll, longis incurvis rubris apicem versus folii evanidis, scapo 

 valido basicompresso adscendente parce ramoso, spici3 bims 2-3-pedah- 

 bus 4 poll. diam. cylindraceis densifloris, bracteis 1 7 1£ poll, longis 

 lanceolatis siccis infra racemum vacuis, floralibns stnatis albo late mar- 

 ginal, floribus brevissime pedicellatis pendulis deorsum imbricatis, 

 perianthio lj poll.longo cylindraceo £ poll. diam. palhde rubro.segmentia 

 infra medium connatis apicibus deltoideo-recurvis palhdis, stamimbus 

 longe exsert's, antheris ochroleucis demum atro-brunneis. 



A. rubroviolacea, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vol. ii. App. II. (1894) 

 p. 71. Notizblatt. Berl. Bot. Gart. vol. i. p. 5 (1897). 



For the opportunity of figuring this noble plant I am 

 indebted to ray friend, Sir Thomas Hanbury, F.L.S., of 

 La Mortola, who sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 

 March, 1902, a flowering raceme, a leaf, a photograph of 

 the whole plant made by Sir Edmund Loder, Bart., and an 

 excellent detailed description, with notes on its affinities, 

 &c, by Sir Thomas's able Curator, Mr. Alwin Berger, 

 of which I have largely availed myself. Mr. Berger says, 

 " The plant was received from the Berlin Botanic Gardens. 

 It flowered for the first time at the Palazzo Orengo in the 

 spring of 1900, and produced a few capsules with good 

 seed, from which a stock of seedlings has been raised. 

 In the severe winter of last year the flowering scape was 

 injured by the frost." Mr. Berger adds, " The inflorescence 

 is composed at present of two spikes only, but it may 

 become more branched in future. Concerning its allies I 

 think there can be no doubt it belongs to the group with 

 A. Salm-Dyckiana, Schult. fil., A. drepanophylla, Baker, 

 and A. chloroleuca, Baker. It cannot be grouped under 

 Pachidendron, for the perianth is not at all clavate, its 

 March 1st, 1903. 



