Gasteria.] LILIACEZ (Baker). 289 
leaves 8-10, distichous, spreading, lingulate, 22-3 in. long, 8-9 lines 
broad, deltoid-cuspidate at the apex; spots whitish, small, rather 
raised, aggregated into irregular transverse bands; flowers unknown. 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 185. Aloe repens, Roem. et 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 674; Kunth, Enum. iv. 542. 
Soutu Arrica: without locality. 
Described from a drawing of a plant grown at Kew in 1821. Perhaps a hybrid 
between G. verrucosa var. intermedia and G. carinata. 
5. G. nigricans (Haw. Syn. 86); leafy stem 4-5 in. long; leaves 
10-20, distichous, crowded, lingulate, rigidly coriaceous, erecto- 
patent, 4-8 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, rounded and with a cusp at the 
horny apex, not tubercled and never thickened on the margin below 
it, {-} in. thick in the middle, dark green and glossy on the sur- 
face, with copious, scattered, immersed whitish spots, face rather 
turgid in the lower half, back rounded; peduncle a foot or more 
long, usually simple; raceme lax, 1-1} ft. long ; lower pedicels 
¢-3 in. long; bracts lanceolate, as long as the pedicels; perianth 
$-i in. long, ball oblong, 2 in. diam. . Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
xvili. 185. Aloe nigricans, Haw. in Trans, Linn. Soe. vii. 13; Salm- 
Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxix. fig.7 ; Kunth, Enum. iv. 584, A. obliqua, 
Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. t. 418, excl. syn. A. Lingua var. crassifolia, 
Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 469; Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 838. 
Var. 8, G. crassifolia (Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1827, 351) ; leaves narrower and 
thicker, with the margin slightly tubercled. 
Var. y, marmorata (Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1827, 350); leaves shorter and 
narrower than in the type, marbled with white and reddish spots. Aloe nigricans 
var. marmorata, Salm-Dyck, Obs. 64. 
Van. 3, G. fasciata (Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1827, 349); leafy stem not so short ; 
leaves longer than in the type, lorate, very smooth, with the = aggregated 
into indistinct transverse bands. Aloe nigricans var. fasciata, Salm-Dyck, Obs. 
64. A. vittata, Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 662 ; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. 
xxix. fig. 6. 
Var. ¢, polyspila (Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc, xviii. 185); leafy stem 3 in. 
long ; leaves 10-12, Sess } ft. long, 1-14 in. broad, not tubercled on the edge, 
the blotches smaller, more crowded and greener than in the type. 
Var. ¢, A. guttata (Salm-Dyck, Hort. 332); leafy stem longer than in the 
type; leaves not so thick anit: with smaller spots and the margins tubercled. 
Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxix. fig. 9; Kunth, Enum. iv. 547. Gasteria subnigri- 
cans var, glabrior, Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1827, 352. 
Var. », G. subnigricans (Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1827, 351); leaves lorate, 
strongly faleeele’ on the edit and rough on the surfaces through the egriny 
being slightly raised. Aloe subnigricans, Spreng. Syst. ii. 71; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, 
sect. xxix. fig. 10; Kunth, Enum. iv. 547. 
Var. 6, platyphylla (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soe. xviii. 186) ; leafy stem 2-3 in, 
long ; bite: aodbery 24-8 if. broad, with the margins peta —ad the 
apex ; inflorescence branched, with a stout peduncle and 3-4 racemes 1 ft. long. 
G. latifolia, Hort. viz Haworth. 
‘Coast Rearon : living plants of the type and var. ¢, introduced from Algoa 
Bay by T. Cooper ! Bille wear Port Elizabeth, under 500 ft., Zeyher, 1482! 
