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ALOE PENTAGONA. PENTAGONAL ALOE. 
HT EEE TE EEE EE EEE 
Clafs and Order. 
HexaNpDrRIA Monoeynia. 
Generic Charaéter.—Vid. No. 756. 
Specific Characier-and S. synonyms. 
ALOE pentagona ; (caudex imbricato-foliatus ; flores e minovi- 
bus, ere@i;) foliis axem ex deorfum pentagono- 
. decuffatim fuperne verfus fpiraliter fparfimque am- 
bientibus, ovato-acuminatis, pulvinato-craflis, brevibus, 
rigidis, carinato-cufpidatis, atrovirentibus, glabris vel 
minutiffime elevato-pun@ticulatis, margine carinaque 
denticulatis, inferioribus divaricatis, fuperioribus, 
convergentibus, fupremis minoribus _ pallidioribus 
convoluto-concavis (nunc fubtus tuberculis paucis albidis 
parum falientibus notatis); caule ramofo; racemis 
ALOE /Jpiralis. B. pentagona. Hort. Kew. 1. 471. Willd. Sp. 
Pl. 2. 191 5 (exclufa pafimvar.a) 
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We have been induced to confider the prefent plant as 
fpecifically diftin& from /piralis, not fo much by the difference 
in the arrangement and expanfion of the leaves, as by the total 
abfence of the tranfverfe wrinkles, fo remarkable in the corolla 
of the latter, in which there are alfo other minuter diftinétions, 
But ftill they may poflibly be mere varieties of each other. 
Miter, in his Dittionary, when fpeaking of /piralis, fays, 
BS ee om “ there 
