Tab. 7386. 

 ALOE Kiekii. 



Native of Zanzibar. 



Nat. Ord. LiLiACEiE— Tribe Aloine^s. 

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



Aloe, KirHi ; caudice brevi valido, f oliis 30-40 dense rosulatis lanceolatis 

 snbpedalibus patulis viridibus brevibus immaculatis, aculeis marginalibus 

 magnis patulis deltoideis, pedunculo stricto erecto trifurcato, racemis 

 densis oblongo-cylindricis, pedicellis brevibus, superioribus ascendentibus, 

 inferioribus cernuis, bracteis ovatis parvis, perianthio cylindrico rubro- 

 luteo apice viridulo, lobis lingulatis tubo brevioribus, staminibus brevissime 



exsertis 



This is another new Aloe, sent from Zanzibar by Sir 

 John Kirk to the Royal Gardens, Kew. It was received 

 from him in 1881, and flowered for the first time in the 

 Succulent House in January, 1894. It belongs to the group 

 of true Aloes with a very short caudex, and dense rosette 

 of unspotted leaves, of which A. brevifolia, Serra, glauca, 

 and heteracantha are the best known garden representatives. 

 Its nearest ally is A. Hildebrandtii, Baker in Bot. Mag. 

 Tab. 6981, which also is a native of South-East tropical 

 Africa. 



Descr.— Caudex short, stout, erect. Leaves thirty to 

 forty in a dense rosette, spreading, lanceolate, nearly a foot 

 long, two inches broad above the dilated base, tapering 

 gradually to the point, a quarter of an inch thick in the 

 middle, bright green, without any spots or dots, very 

 smooth on both surfaces ; marginal teeth large, deltoid, 

 spreading, scarcely tipped with brown in the cultivated 

 plant. Inflorescence two feet long, with three branches; 

 peduncle stiffly erect, branched at the middle; racemes 

 dense, oblong-cylindrical, the end one nearly a foot long ; 

 pedicels short, the upper ascending, the lower cernuous ; 



November 1st, 1894. 



