gradual increase in thickness from the base upwards. 
Though erect or at least ascending in these cultivated 
plants, the appearance of the stem suggests that in wild 
ones it may be more or less prostrate, a suggestion 
strengthened by the inclined position assumed by the 
inflorescence. The leaves, which are remarkable for 
their closely set silvery white spots, are relatively small 
for the genus; their sheaths are rather long and com- 
pletely encircle the stem. It is singular that since its 
original discovery this species has not again been met 
with in a wild state. In the division of the section to 
which A. concinna belongs are included two other Aloes, 
both nearly related to our plant, yet both readily dis- 
tinguished from it by their flowers, for one of them, 
A. squarresa, Baker, a Socotran Species, has a shorter 
perianth, while the other, A. Dorotheae, Berger, a species 
of German East Africa, has a longer perianth than 
A. concinna. : 
Dzscription.—Undershrub with a distinct stem, 8-13 in. high, and succulent 
leaves. Stem erect or ascending, naked at the base where it is marked by the 
annular scars of the fallen leaves, and is about 3 in. thick, leafy upwards, and 
there over } in. thick. Leaves Scattered, wide-lanceolate, gradually narrowed 
to the acute tip, biconvex towards the base, and about 3 in, thick, in the upper 
third concave above ‘and convex below, reflexed and beset along the margin 
with rather close-set, curved, deltoid, white teeth about ¢ in. long, green and. 
marked on both sides with silvery oval spots. Pedunele unbranched, slender, 
inclined to one side, 4-5 in. long; pedicels about + in. long; bracts lanceolate, 
scarious, shorter than the pedicels; raceme 3 in. long. Perianth cylindric, 
i-1) in. long, about } in. across, reddish at the base, yellow towards the middle, 
green near the apex ; tube short ; lobes oblong, blunt. Filaments as long as 
the perianth ; anthers just overtopping the perianth-lobes, Ovary oblong, 
slightly 8-lobed ; style as long as the perianth, 
Tas. 8790.—Fig. 1, a flower; 2 and 3, stamens ; 4, pistil; 5, sketch of the 
entire plant :—all enlarged except 5, which is much reduced. 
