whole furface ; and being whitifli and tranfparent imparts a 

 hue that at once diftinguifhes the fpecies from its congeners. 

 Comes the neareft to margaritifera (N 5s - 815, 1360) of any 

 other known to us. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, from 

 whence it was imported into the Kew Gardens, by Mr. 

 Masson in 1795 ; but had been known in the Dutch collec- 

 tions long before. A very rare plant, and according to Mr. 

 Haworth (to whom we are obliged for the fpecimen) difficult 

 to preferve, as well as to propagate. Should be kept in the 

 greenhoufe ; blooms in Auguft ; has no fcent. G. 



NOTE. 



Aloe depressa j fupra No. 1332. At the fuggeltion of 

 Mr. Haworth, we have looked again to the article Aloe 

 ferra in the " Plantes graffes" of Decandolle, and are now 

 convinced as well as that gentleman, that it is the fame with 

 deprejfa, and ought to be added to the fynonymy of that fpecies ; 

 although the figure is miferably uncharafteriftic. 



Aloe ferra. Decandolle pl.gr. 80 ; cum icone ma fa. 



