Hanbury in whose garden at La Mortola it flowered for the 
first time in November, 1907 ; this is possibly the first record 
of the species having flowered in Europe. The same plant - 
- flowered again in November, 1908, and afforded the material 
- utilised for our plate. Seedlings of this species are now 
__ probably frequent in gardens. They look rather unlike the 
“adult plant as their leaves are densely covered with round 
white spots, which gradually become less frequent and 
ultimately disappear as the plants grow larger. Even at 
La Mortola the species is not quite hardy ; though rather 
quick-growing and otherwise presenting no cultural difficulty, 
it is sensitive to cold. Like many other Aloes, A. rubrolutea 
18 @ very ornamental green-house plant, and like other 
tropical species may perhaps do well in a temperate house ; 
it should if possible be given a place in a border with rich 
but gravelly soil. Strong and old specimens will certainly 
prove handsome and valuable objects in a collection. 
Drscriprion.—Stem unbranched, stout, 8 ft. or more in _ 
height, covered with old leaves; in the young plant here — 
figured only 6 in. high, 24 in. thick. Leaves about 20 in a 
dense rosette, lanceolate-ensiform, spreading and flat at the 
base, slightly wider at the middle, thence acuminate and 
channelled to the acute tip, thick and fleshy, glaucous-green, 
the margins beset with brown deltoid and somewhat hooked 
spines, about 2 ft. long, 44 in. wide; in the La Mortola 
specimen 17 in. long. Panicle much-branched, branches 
somewhat spreading, naked below but with a few empty 
bracts under the raceme. Racemes about 1 ft. long, cylindric, 
slender, with many rather lax, drooping flowers; bracts 
whitish, lanceolate, acute, 3-8-nerved, 4-3 in. long, at first 
imbricate, at length more or less reflexed; pedicels 3-5 lin. 
long, much elongated in fruit. Perianth straight, cylindric, 
somewhat widened near the top, bright red, 14 in. long; 
outer segments united at the base or nearly half-way, linear- 
lanceolate, acute, with 3 or more veins; inner segments 
obtuse with dark-brown tips. Stamens and_ style hardly 
exceeding the perianth. Capsule oblong, 1 in. long, many- 
seeded. Seeds with a greyish, oblong, thin wing. 
Figs. 1 and 2, stamens; 3, ovary; 4, an entire plant:—1-3 enlarged, 4 much 
reduced, 
