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| ALOE AFRICANA, 8. ANGusTIOR. Narrower 
Sworb-Leavep ALor. — 
Class and. Order. 
HEXANDRIA Monoeynia. 
Generie Character. 
Corolla erecta, ore patulo, fundo nectarifero. Filam. 
-Teceptaculo inserta, vk 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Ator africana ; fruticosa, foliis ensiformibus glaucis am- 
plexicaulibus,..spica_ terminali longissima, floribus 
pendulis imbricatis, staminibus exsertis.. m2 
Ator africana; foliis ensiformibus glaucis; inferioribyus 
distantibus; apicibus reflexis, dentibus marginalibus 
igneis. Haworth in Lin. Soc. Trans.7. p. 21.—Syn. 
Pl. Succ. p.76. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 296. 
Ator perfoliata, B. africana ; foliis latioribus amplexicau- 
libus margine et dorso spinosis, floribus spicatis, caule 
fruticoso. Hort. Kew. ed. I" 1. p. 466. Mill. Dict. 
Willd. Sp. Pl 2. p. 185. 
(8.) latifolia ; foliis erecto-patulis superne parum recurvis. 
Haworth Suppl. Pl. Succ. p. 47. 
(2.) angustior ; foliis patenti-recurvantibus, fere duplo 
-angustioribus quam in var. 2. Id. 1. c. 
a 
Descr. At the time Mr. Haworrn published his elabo- 
rate arrangement of the genus Axor in the Seventh Volume 
of the Transactions of the Linnean Society, he had never 
seen the flowers of this species, which it rarely has been 
known to produce till it has acquired a very considerable 
size ; the figures of it which have been hitherto published, 
ave, in consequence, represented the form of the plant only, 
; ; without 
