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ALog PERFOLIATA, var; SUCCOTRINA. 
‘Succorrine ALog. 
Se HHH eieeescakse 
- Clafs and Order. 
Hexanpria Monocynia. 
Generic CharaGer. 
Cor. ere@a, ore patulo, fundo ne€tarifero. Filam. receptaculo 
- Inferta. 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. 
ALOE perfoliata foliis caulinis dentatis amplexicaulibus vagi- 
nantibus, floribus corymbofis cernuis pedunculatis 
fubcylindricis, var. 3 Succotrina, Ait. Kew.v. 1. p. 466. 
ALOE vera foliis longiffimis et anguftiffimis marginibus {pi- 
_ nofis, floribus {picatis. Mill. Dif oy 
The figure here given was drawn in January 1799, from a 
plant in full bloom in the dry ftove of the Apothecaries Garden 
- at Chelfea; Mr. Fairsarrn informs me that it flowers re- 
gularly every year: the plant itfelf, fuppofed to be fifty years 
old, has a ftem the thicknefs of one’s arm, naked for the 
{pace of about four feet from the ground, then dividing into 
feveral large heads, formed of the leaves growing in clufters, 
from the centre of which arife the flowering-ftems, two feet 
or more in length, producing fpikes of flowers frequently 
much longer than thofe reprefented on the plate; thefe be- 
fore they open are upright, when fully blown they hang | 
down, and when out of bloom they turn upwards, 
This undoubtedly is the Aloé vera of Mitxier, and the 
perfoliata var. Juccotrina of Mr. Arron, that which produces 
the Succotrine Aloes of the fhops, and is faid to grow in the 
Hfland of Zocotra or Socotora, in the Straits of Babelmandel ; 
it Is therefore highly interefting as a medicinal plant, and 
very defirable as an ornamental one. : 
Is propagated by offsets, which it does not produce in any 
great plenty, and to have it in perfeGtion, it muft be treated 
as'a dry-Bove: plant 2° 2 ee 
