Tas. 8790. 
ALOE GoNncINNA. 
Zanzibar. 
Li1aceak. Tribe ALOINEAE, 
Axor, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant, vol. iii. p. 776. 
Aloe (§ Monostachyae) concinna, Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. 
p. 461; Berger in Engl. Pflanzenr.—Liliac. Asphodel.-Aloin. p. 265, 
fig. 108, A-C; species A. Dorotheae, Berger, affinis, perianthio breviore 
differt. , 
Suffrutex caulescens, 20-32 em. alta. Caulis erectus vel adscendens, inferne 
nudus, cicatricibus foliorum delapsorum annulatus, 1 cm. diametro, supra 
foliatus, 1°38 em. diametro. Folia quaquaversa, late lanceolata, ad apicem 
acutum gradatim acuminata, parte inferiore biconvexa, 1 cm. crassa, parte ° 
tertia superiore concavo-convexa, reflexa, dentibus approximatis deltoideis 
curvatis albis 4 mm. longis praedita, viridia, utraque maculis ovalibus 
pallidioribis notata. Pedwncwlus simplex, inclinatus, 12 cm. longus; 
pedicelli vix 1 cm. longi; bracteae lanceolatae, scariosae, quam pedicelli 
breviores; racemus 6 cm. longus. Perianthiwm cylindricum, 2-4 cm. 
longum, 7 mm. diametro, basi rubrum, medio flavum, apice viride; tubus 
brevis; lobi oblongi, obtusi. Filamenta perianthio aequilonga; antherae 
exsertae. Ovariwm oblongum, leviter 3-lobum ; stylus perianthio aequi- 
longus.—C. H. Wricut. 
The Aloe now figured was first discovered at Zanzibar 
by Sir John Kirk by whom it was presented to Kew. It 
has grown satisfactorily in a sunny tropical house where 
it flowers in the autumn and suckers rather freely. The 
original plant flowered at Kew for the first time not in 
autumn but in April, 1895, and when it was then 
described by Mr. Baker it still had “laxly rosulate ” 
leaves, but by 1901 it had developed a stem thirteen 
inches high with scattered foliage. From the suckers 
several independent plants have been raised and one of 
these, which forms the subject of our plate, flowered at 
Kew in October, 1916. One of the plants had by 
October, 1918, developed two stems, eleven and thirteen 
inches high respectively, with five basal offsets from one 
to two inches in height. The stem is relatively slender, 
and the naked portion is conspicuous on account of the 
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