Tab. 6377. 

 ALOE Cooperi. 



Native of Gape Colony and Natal. 



Nat. Ord. Liliace2e. — Tribe Aloine^e. 

 Genus Aloe, Linn. (Kunth, Emm. vol. iv. p. 492). 



Aloe Cooperi j acaulis, foliis rudimentariis 3-4 lanceolatis membranaceis, pro- 

 duces 6-8 disticbis lineari-subulatis basi dilatatis suberectis cbartaceis albo 

 maculatis margine cartilagineis dentibus minutis corneis proeditis, pedunculo 

 simplici pedaH vel sesquepedali foliis paucis parvis bracteiformibus proBditis, 

 floribus 12-25 in racemum corymbosum dispositis, bracteis magnis lanceolatis, 

 pedicellis inferioribus flore sequilongis, perianthii cylindrici rubro-lutei tubo 

 campanulato, segmentis aequalibus lanceolatis superne viridibus, genitalibus 

 inclusis, capsulae valvis lanceolatis. 



A. Cooperi, Baker in Oarcl. Ohron. 1874, p. 628. 



By the thin firm texture of their suberect long-tapering 

 leaves, this species and A. myriacantlia differ conspicuously 

 from all the other Aloes in cultivation. The present plant was 

 discovered by Burchell in the year 1814 in the neighbour- 

 hood of Uitenhage, flowering in January and February. It 

 was refound in 1862 by Mr. Thomas Cooper on grassy plains 

 in Natal, and brought by him to this country in a living state. 

 We have had it for some time at Kew, but it has not yet 

 flowered with us. The drawing was made by Mr. Wilson 

 Saunders from a plant that flowered at Eeigate. 



Desch. Acaulescent, the rosette surrounded by three or 

 four lanceolate membranous rudimentary leaves. Produced 

 leaves six or eight, distichous, suberect, linear-subulate from 

 a dilated deltoid clasping base, tapering to a long point, a foot 

 or more long, deeply channeled down the face, acutely keeled 

 down the back, firm, and hardly at all fleshy in texture, green, 

 spotted with white, especially in the lower part, furnished 

 with a narrow pale horny border, and copious spreading 

 minute linear teeth, which are larger towards the base of the 

 leaf. Peduncle stout, terete, a foot or a foot and a half long, 



AUGUST 18T, 1878. 



