Tas. 8484. 
ALOE Maruoruit. 
South Africa. 
Liniaceak. Tribe ALOINEAE. 
Atox, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 476. 
Aloe Marlothii, Berger in Engl. Jahrb. vol. xxxviii. p. 87; et in Engl. 
Pilanzenr. Liliac. Aloin. p. 812, fig. 1383; Wood, Natal Plants, vol. vi. 
tt. 57, 580; species A. Ga/pini, Baker, quam maxime affinis sed foliis 
subtus spinoso-tuberculatis et floribus secundis luteis nec rubris, pauloque 
longioribus differt. 
Frutex succulentus, caudice valido simplici rosulam foliorum ad 1 m. usque 
diametientem suffu'c ente, inferne densiuscule foliis exsiccatis persistentibus 
reflexis vestito. Folia conferta, 4-5 dm. longa, 15-17 em. lata, ovato- 
lanceolata vel lanceolata, acuminata, margine aculeis conicis 0°5-1°5 cm. 
remotis armata, supra concaviuscula, apicem versus subcanaliculata, 
parte inferiore sparse spinoso-tuberculata vel omnino inermia, subtus 
convexa, subcarinata ubique spinoso-tuberculata et secus carinam 
tuberculis 1-serialibus notata vel nonnunquam subinermia, utrinque 
perglauca; aculeae apice brunneae. Pedunculi erecti, fere metrales 
repztite dichotome ramosi subcandelabriformesque, subpurpurascentes ; 
rami subhorizontaliter patentes, apice leviter sursum recurvi, 1:5 om: 
crassi. F/ores secundi, omnes sursum spectantes simulac leviter deflexi ; 
bracteae reflexae, 6-7 mm. longae, ovatae, acutae, submembranaceae, 
pallide brunneae; pedicelli 4-6 mm. longi, validi, recurvi, virides. 
ierianthium 3°3 cm. longum, subcylindricum, versus apicem _leviter 
dilatatum, segmentis apice rotundatis vix patentibus, extra luteum, 
superne viridi-striatum, interioribus 3 apice brunneis. Stamina 1°2-1°8 
cm, ultra perianthium exserta; filamentorum parte exserta atro-violacea, 
parte inclusa pallide lutea; antherae aurantiacae. Stylus exsertus, pallide 
luteus, apice fuscus.—A4. supralaevis, 8 Hanburii, Baker in Dyer, Fl. Cap. 
vol; vi. p. 327 ; nequaquam A. supralaevis, Haw.—N. E. Brown. 
The fine Aloe here figured was discovered by Dr. R. 
Marloth first at Lobatsi in Bechuanaland; later near Lady- 
smith in Natal; still later on the Klip River Mountains 
near Johannesburg in the Transvaal. _‘l'ransvaal specimens 
flowered first under cultivation in the Grahamstown Botanic 
Garden in July 1908. A plant sent by Dr. Marloth in 1905 
from the Klip River locality to Sir Thomas Hanbury, at La 
Mortola, flowered there in April 1912 and provided the 
material for our illustration. The species, however, had 
already reached Europe; the plant described by Mr. Baker 
Makgcu, 1913. — 
