of Miller's original plant. It is recorded as having been 

 grown at Amsterdam by Adrian van der Stel as long ago 

 as the beginning of the eighteenth century. It was first 

 figured in the monograph published by Prince Salm- 

 Reifferscheid-Dyck in 1817. It is distinguishable from 

 Miller's plant not only in habit but in having the leaves 

 almost flat instead of channelled near the middle on the 

 upper side and in having the raceme, at least when young, 

 conical rather than cylindric. The inner perianth- 

 segments are sometimes yellowish. The material for our 

 plate has been supplied from a plant grown in the garden 

 of Lady Hanbury at La Mortola. As a wild plant our 

 variety has been met with by the late Dr. Medley Wood 

 at altitudes of 800-3,000 feet in Natal, and by Dr. S. 

 Schoenland at an altitude of 1,000 feet in Komgha, 

 always in rocky situations. The various varieties of 

 A. arbor escens are among the easiest of Aloes to cultivate. 

 They grow vigorously in poor gravelly soil provided the 

 position given be a sunny one in a warm house, and if 

 they receive a fair allowance of water at the root in 

 summer. One of the stemless varieties is very commonly 

 grown as a window plant in country cottages. ' 



Description.— Shrub, freely branching at the base; 

 branches erect or slightly spreading. Leaves densely 

 clustered at the tips of the branches, ensiform from a 

 broad base, gradually narrowed upwards, reflexed or 

 falcately deflexed, about 1± ft. long, 2 in. wide, nearly 

 flat above, convex beneath, glaucous, reddish towards 

 the tips, margin narrowly cartilaginous ; teeth incurved- 

 hooked, the lower J in. long and J in. apart, the upper 

 |-§ in. apart. Peduncle erect or upcurved, stout, up to 

 1 5 ft. long, simple or at times with a short lateral branch ; 

 raceme 8-10 in. long; sterile bracts rather numerous, 

 wide deltoid; fertile bracts closely imbricate, ovate- 

 oblong, blunt, reddish, becoming brown and scarious. 

 Perianth l|-lf in. long ; tube straight or slightly curved, 

 narrowed below the middle, red ; lobes 3-5-nerved, the 

 outer somewhat acute, the inner blunt, green. Stamens 

 slightly exserted. 



Fig. 1, perianth; 2 and 0, stamens; 4, pistil :— all enlarged. 



