good a genus, both in habit and floral characters as most of 
Liliaceae. 
Aloe Croucheri has been long cultivated at Kew ; its origin 
is unknown. | 
Drscr. Stemless. Leaves numerous, spreading in all 
directions and recurved, forming a dense rosette, one foot 
long by three inches to three and a half inches broad at the 
base, gradually narrowed upwards to a suddenly rounded 
tip terminating in a hooked mucro, three-fourths of an inch 
to one inch in thickness; surface smooth, dark green, 
covered with oblong whitish spots, which have often a green 
eye, upper surface broadly channelled, with the supplemen- 
tary keel on the left (to the right in the plate by an error), 
margins cartilaginous, spotted with white, minutely toothed. 
Scape including the panicle two feet to two and a half feet 
high, much branched above. acemes numerous, eight to 
ten inches long, curving upwards ; bracts setaceous. Flowers 
very numerous, pendulous, two inches long, pedicels one 
half inch long, Perianth tubular, cylindric, slightly curved, 
terete, somewhat contracted in the middle, slightly inflated 
above and below it; lower half pale rose-coloured ; upper half 
white, with green veins running downwards from each of the 
short broad erose perianth segments. Stamens yellow, 
slightly exserted.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced sketch of plant ; fig. 2, portion of leaf, and fig. 8, portion 
of araceme, both of nat. size ;—fig. 4, flower ; fig. 5, ovary ;—both magnified. 
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