Tan. 6705. 
ALOE PRATENSIS. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Nat. Ord. Lriracen2—Wibe ALOINER. 
Genus Atox, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl, vol. iii. p. 776.) 
ALOE pratensis ; acaulis, foliis permultis dense rosulatis oblongo-lanceolatis acumi- 
natis semipedalibus viridibus glauco tinctis immaculatis obscure verticaliter 
lineatis dorso superne tuberculato-aculeatis margine aculeis magnis patulis 
rubro-brunneis armatis, pedunculo valido simplici bracteis vacuis multis 
scariosis ovatis acuminatis praedito, racemo denso simplici, pedicellis ascenden- 
tibus flore seepe longioribus, bracteis magnis ovatis acuminatis, perianthii 
splendide rubri tubo brevissimo campanulato, segmentis lanceolatis, genitalibus 
demum breviter exsertis. 
A. pratensis, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xviii. p. 156. 
This is a well-marked and very handsome new species of 
the dwarf acaulescent group of Aloes, allied to A. humiiis 
and A. aristata. We first received it from Mr. Thomas 
Cooper, of Reigate, in whose rich collection it flowered 
several years ago. In 1872, Professor McOwan sent two 
fine specimens for the Herbarium, gathered on the summit 
of the Boschberg, at an elevation of 4500 feet above sea- 
level. Lately it has flowered again in the collection of Mr. 
Justus Corderoy, of Blewbury, near Didcot, from whose 
specimen the present drawing was made. 
_-Desor. Acaulescent. Leaves sixty or eighty in a dense 
rosette, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, the outer ones five or 
six inches long, the inner ones growing gradually smaller, 
an inch and a half broad at the base, exclusive of the spines, 
narrowed gradually from the base to the point, firm in 
texture, an eighth of an inch thick in the middle, green 
with a slight glaucous tinge, obscurely lineate vertically on 
both back and face, not spotted, furnished on the margin 
with large red-brown deltoid cuspidate horny spines, a few 
of which extend to the back of the leaf near its tip. 
Peduncle short, stout, simple, a foot or more in length, 
AUGUST Ist, 1883. 
