named A. hereroensis, crippled much earlier, and the leaves 
consequently very short. There is no crippling of the 
leaves in the figures of the wild plants of either of the 
species in question. : 
Sir Thomas Hanbury obtained his plant from the Berlin 
Botanic Garden, whither it was sent by Mr. Baum, the 
discoverer, now Curator of the Botanic Garden at Rostock. 
In the narrative of Mr. Baum’s journey, as cited above, it 
is stated that this Aloe is extremely common, ranging from 
the Shella mountains eastward to beyond the Kuito River 
in Angola; that is between about 14° and 20° KH. long., and 
about 16° to 18°S. lat. The plant photographed in the book 
named was at Chirumba, on the Kubango River, growing 
in sandy, gravelly soil, at an elevation of nearly 4,000 ft. 
-The Kaffirs of Humbe, on the Kunene River, in the 
west, make cakes of the flowers of Aloe Baumii. They 
boil and press the flowers for this purpose ; but we are not 
told whether Europeans relish the said cakes. 
Descr.—Stemless or nearly so. Leaves from fifteen to 
twenty, densely rosulate, lanceolate, spreading, nine to 
twelve inches long, two to two and a half inches broad at 
the base, nearly half an inch thick, more or less shrivelled — 
at the tip in the cultivated plants, upper surface flat, 
beset with whitish, oblong spots, margin regularly toothed; — 
teeth almost straight from a broad base, very rigid, horny, 
sharp, about a quarter of an inch long, a quarter to half 
an inch apart. Scape solitary, erect, rather slender, three 
to five feet high, loosely, simply branched above the 
middle; branches three to ten, nearly erect; bracts her- 
baceous, dirty white, lanceolate, long-pointed, gradually 
smaller upwards, uppermost slightly exceeding the pedi- 
cels, about a quarter of aninch long. \ Flowers loosely race- 
mose, orange-red, one to one and a half inch long, pendulous. 
Perianth conspicuously constricted above the ovary ; lobes 
Shorter than the tube, erect, inner ones broader, all 
ee obtuse. Stamens and style very shortly exserted. 
Fig. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, gyneceum:—all enlarged: 4, whole plant, as 
cultivated in Sir Thomas Hanbury’s garden :—about sae catacat an 
