288 winiace# (Baker). [ Gasteria. 
pedicels; perianth 3-2 in. long; ball oblong, } in. diam. Baker in 
Journ. Linn, Soc. xviii. 184. Aloe verrucosa, Miller, Gard. Dict. 
edit. viii. No. 20 ; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 189 ; Bot. Mag. t. 837 ; Salm- 
Dyck, Aloe sect. 29, t. 25; Kunth, Enum. iv. 543. A. carinata, 
DC., Plantes Grasses, t. 63. A. disticha, Linn. Sp. Plant. edit. 2, 
459, ex parte. A. ucuminata, Lam. Encyc. i. 90, excl, syn. 
Vaz. 8, latifolia (Haw. Revis. 47); more robust, with leaves sometimes & 
foot long, and 6-8 racemes forming a deltoid panicle. : 
Var. y, @. intermedia (Haw. Syn. 89); leaves more ensiform, 6-9 in. long, 
1-1} in. broad low down; tubercles not so white; inflorescence usnally simple. 
Aloe intermedia, Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 12; Salm-Dyck, Aloe sect. 
29, fig. 24; Kunth, Enum, iv. 542. A. Lingua, Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1322, 
eacl, syn. 
ag 3, scaberrima (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soo. xviii. 184); leaves more 
lorate, incurved with most of the tubercles, greenish-white, nearly the same colour 
as the leaf. Aloe scaberrima, Salm-Dyck, Hort. 322; Aloe sect. 29, fig. 26; 
Kunth, Enum, iv. 543. G. intermedia, var. asperrima, Haw. in Phil. Mag. 
Sours Argica: without locality. 
Cultivated by Boerhaave and Miller, 1720-1730. There isa specimen in the 
herbarium of Bishop Goodenough, dried probably from Kew about 1780. 
2. G. radulosa (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1889, 43); leafy stem 
1-1} in. long; leaves about 6, distichous, lorate-ensiform, 6-8 in. 
long, 1} in. broad, flexible in texture, face flat, dull green, } in. 
thick in the middle, rounded, and with a cusp at the apex, 
dentate on the edge upwards, spots on the face crowded, small, 
whitish, slightly raised ; flowers unknown. 
South ArFrica: without locality. 
Described from a living plant in the Kew collection in 1885, received from 
Berlin. Allied to G. swbverrucosa, 
3. G. subverrucosa (Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1827, 355); leafy stem 
1}-2 in. long; leaves 8-10, lorate, distichous, 4 ft. long, 1-1} in. 
broad, not so thick as in verrucvsu, rounded, and with a mucro 
continuously hairy at the apex, edges not thickened but beaded 
with raised tubercles, spots of the face and back small, irregularly 
scattered and slightly raised; peduncle simple, 1 ft. long; raceme 4 
foot long; pedicels }-3 in. long; bracts lanceolate, shorter than the 
pedicels ; perianth 3 in. long; tube oblong, 4 in. diam. Baker ™ 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 184, Aloe subverrucosa, Salm-Dyck, Obs. 
67; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 671; Kunth, Enum. iv. 544. 
Vaz. 8, parvipunctata (Haw. loc. cit.); leaves longer, more ensiform ; spots 
emaller, less crowded in the upper part of the leaf. 
Vag. y, marginata (Baker, loc. cit.) ; pale hairy margin of leaf continued all 
the way down. 
Coast Rxeion : living plants of the type and var. y, introduced from Algo® 
Bay by T. Cooper! 
Introduced about 1820. Intermediate between G. verrucosa and G. disticha. 
4. G. repens (Haw. Revis. 48); leafy stem about an inch long; 
