Tab. 7915. 



ALOE Cameeoni. 



Native of Eastern Tropical Africa. 



Nat. Ord. Liliace^. — Tribe Aloine^b. 

 Genua Aloe, Linn. ; (Beiiih. et Eooh.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 776.) 



Aloe Cameroni ; frutex caulescens, erectus, omnino glaber (atirps depicta caule 

 simplici circiter bipedali), foliis sparsis patenti-recurvis angustis lanceolatis 

 9-12 poll.longis infra medium circiter 1| poll, latis acutis concavo-convexis 

 plano-convexisve circiter 3-4 lin. crassis viridibua margine remote 

 breviterque spinoso-dentatis spinis basi lalis apice incurvis, inflorescentia 

 axillari simplici suberecta cum pedunculo elongato circiter pedali, bract eis 

 scariosis basi latis acute acuminatis pedicellis brevioribus, pedicellis l§-2 

 lin. longis, floribus rubro-luteis ad apicem pedunculi confertis pendulis 

 cum staminibus exsertis circiter bipollicaribus, perianthii tubo fere 

 cylindrico leviter curvato infra medium leviter constricto, limbi lobis 

 oblongis apice tantum leviter recnrvis obtusis vel rotundatis, ovario 

 obscure verruculoso, stylo breviter exserto. 



Aloe Cameroni, Hemsl. 



A. macrosiphon, Kew Sand-list of Tender Monocotyledons (1897), p. 173, non 

 Bake}' Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 459. 



It is not without some misgivings that I have described 

 this Aloe as a new species, but being unable to identify it 

 with any of the fifty species described by Mr. J. G. Baker 

 in the "Flora of Tropical Africa" (vol. vii. pp. 454-469), I 

 must perforce give it a name. There is always a risk in 

 dealing with a single species of a large and critical genus 

 such as the present, especially as many, probably most, 

 of the species are imperfectly known. The plant from 

 which our drawing was made was sent to the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Kew, in 1894, by Mr. K. J. Cameron, of the 

 African Lakes Corporation, and was received in 1895, and 

 flowered in February of the present year. In a letter to 

 the Director, Mr. Cameron says, " At the request and with 

 the assistance of Mr. Scott Elliot [whose travels in E. and 

 AY. tropical Africa and Madagascar are well known to 

 botanists], I have selected the following plants from our 

 garden at Mandala." Then follows a list. In con- 

 sequence, perhaps, of Mr. Scott Elliot's action in connec- 

 tion with sending the plants in question, it was assumed 

 before it flowered, that this Aloe was the same as one 

 September 1st, 1908. 



