Tas. 6620, 
ALOE ABYSSINICA, var. Pracocxtt. 
Native of Abyssinia. 
Nat. Ord. Littacem.—Tribe ALOINER. 
Genus Atoz, Linn. ; (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xviii. p. 152.) 
ALoE abyssinica var. Peacockii ; acaulis, foliis 20-30 lanceolatis sesquipedalibus e 
basi 5-6 poll. lato ad apicem sensim angustatis pallide sordide glauco-viridibus 
margine dentibus'parvis crebris deltoideis corneis rubro-brunneis patulis armatis, 
pedunculo valde compresso semipedali, paniculx ramis 6-8 elongatis ascendentibus, 
racemis densis oblongis, pedicellis 6-9 lin, longis, bracteis lanceolatis pedicellis 
paulo brevioribus, perianthii citrini cylindrici pollicaris segmentis lanceolatis 
tubo oblongo duplo longioribus, genitalibus perianthio subsquilongis, antheris 
parvis luteis oblongo-globosis. 
A, abyssinica var. Peacockii, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xviii. p. 175. 
Probably this fine Aloe will prove to be distinct specifi- 
cally from the original type of abyssinica, as figured in 
Prince Salmdyck’s monograph of the genus (Sect. xviii., 
fig. 1); but as we have as yet only had a single plant of it, 
we prefer for the present to regard it as not more than a 
variety. It was contained in the fine collection of living 
plants lent lately to the Royal Gardens by J. T. Peacock, 
Esq., of Hammersmith, and flowered whilst in our charge 
in February, 1881, when the present drawing was made. 
Although a stout well-developed plant, it had no produced 
stem to the rosette, and the leaves are much broader than 
in typical abyssinica, of a very pale dull glaucous tinge 
and without any spots, and the tube of the perianth is half 
as long as the segments. The plant lately figured and 
described by Professor Todaro (Hort. Bot. Panorm., vol. i., 
p. 81, tab. 21) under the name of Aloe percrassa has 
similar leaves, in combination with a perianth in shape 
very like that of typical abyssinica, but cinnabar-red instead 
of yellow. 
Descr. Leaves twenty or thirty in a dense sessile rosette, 
APRIL Ist, 1882, 
