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Aloe picta. Spotted-leaved Aloe. 

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Generic Character.— Vid. No. 756. 

 Specific Character and Synonym. 



ALOE piU a i (modo breviter nude vet modo totus foliofo-fubcau* 

 defeats ,• flores e majoribus, tereti-trigone lubulofi t recli, 

 pendulo-cernui *) foliis confertim ambientibus, paten- 

 tiffimis, craffis, ovato-lanceolatis, fubglaucefcentibus, 

 maculisoblongis inaequalibus utrinquevage pi&is, fpinis 

 denuo fulvefcentibus dentato-marginatis; racemo den- 

 fiusfpicato-pyramidato; pediceliiserecto-divergentibus, 

 corollam fubadsequamibus ; bra&eis fphacelatis his 

 fubtriplo brevioribus ; ftarninibas fubinclufis. G. 



ALOE picla. Thunb. Diff. n. 4. Prod. 61. Decand. PL Gr. 

 tab. 97. IVilld. Sp. PI. 2. 186; (caftigata fynonymia.) 



A. faponaria i v. obfeura. Haworth. Linn. Tranfi 7. 17; (exel, 

 Bradl. Succ.J 



A. perfoliata ; obfeura. Hort. Kew. 1. 467. 



A. obfeura. Mill. Dic~t. ed. 8. n. 6. 



A. perfoliata. p. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2. 1. 458. 



A. africana maculata fpinofa minor. Dill. Hort. Eltham. p. 18. 

 tab. 15. fig. i0. 



Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Cultivated in She- 

 rard's garden at Eltham. Requires to be kept in a good 

 greenhoufe, where it flowers about Augult or September. 

 Has been generally Confounded with the Common Soap- Aloe, 

 which has a fhort fubumbellate raceme ; and will be given 

 in one of the fubfequent numbers. Our drawing was made 

 from a plant in Mr. Haworth's collection. G. 



NOTE. 



In No. 837 (Aloe verrucosa) I. 12. dele " Thunb. 9. 

 Prod. 6 a" dum in loco adjicias fynonyma fequentia t 



ALOE difticha. Thunb. Diff. p. 7. ». 9. Prod. 61. 



A. feffilis foliis carinatis utraque verrucofis bifariam verfis. 



Mill. Did. ed. 7. n. 20. 

 A. africana foliis longis conjugatis fupra cavis margaritiferis 



fiore rubro elegantiflimo. Boerh. Ind. Alt, 2* tj:. 131. 

 A. africana, &c. &c. Till, Pifan. tab. 8, 



