Tab. 7837. 

 aloe pendens. 

 Native of Arahia. 



Nat. Ord. Liliace*. — Tribe Aloine^. 

 Genns Aloe, Linn. ; {Benth. & Hoolc.f. Oen. Flant. vol. iii. p. 776.) 



Aloe pendens ; fruticosa, sobolifera, pendula, foliia Bubdistichia deflexis et 

 patenti-recurvatis anguste ensiformibua sensim acuminatia ima apice 

 Bubteretibns integris supra leviter turgidis subtus inferne valde convexis 

 Iffite viridibna, dentibus parvis remotis deltoideis, scapo adscendente 

 gracili 3-4-rainoso, racerais elongatis cylindraceis, pedicellis bracteis late 

 ovatis acuminatis striatis longioribue, perianthii cylindracei subtrigoni 

 luteo-rubri segmentis parvis ovatis tube triple longioribns. 



A. pendens, Forslc. Flor. ^gypt. Arab. Descr. p. 74. Baher in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc vol. xviii. p. 181. Engler, Notizbl. Bert Bot. Gart. vol. i. p. 5 

 (1897). 



I am indebted to ray old friend Sir Thomas Hanburj, 

 F.L.S., for specimens of the very interesting Aloe here 

 figured, together with a photograph, and excellent descrip- 

 tion drawn up from the living plant by his Curator, Mr. 

 Alwin Berger. It is a native of Southern Arabia, where 

 it was discovered by Forskal growing on rocks at Hadjeh. 

 It has been collected by Schweinfurth on Djebel Bura, at 

 about three thousand feet elevation. The plant from 

 which the figure is taken was received by Sir T. Hanbnry 

 from the Botanical Gardens of Berhn, and it flowered at 

 the Palazzo Orengo, Mortola, for the first time in March, 

 1902. 



Mr. Berger remarks that in his opinion its nearest allies 

 are the Arabian A. inermis, Forsk., and two South African 

 species, A. microstigm.a and A. consohrina of Salm Dyck, 

 all related by their small, cylindric flowers in elongate 

 racemes, and narrow, ensifbrm, often spotted leaves. 

 He observes that Forskal describes the flowers as of a 

 yellow colour, and feels convinced that this is the case 

 only in plants growing in shady places, as may be seen 

 under such conditions, both in Naples with Mr. C. 

 Sprenger, and in the Botanic Garden at Palermo. 



Descr. — Shrubby ; suckers many. Stem solitary, about 

 sixteen inches long, and an inch and a quarter in 

 JuNB 1st, 1902, 



