290 LILIACEZ (Baker). [ Gasteria 
Introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Vars. 
fasciata, guttata, and subnigricans first described from the Vienna collections 
about 1815. 
6. G. elongata (Baker); leafy stem 1-1} in. long; leaves 6-8, 
lorate, 6—10 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, flexible, rather glossy, flat 
on the face, rounded on the back, jin. thick in the middle; apex 
deltoid-cuspidate ; edges not thickened ; upper half of the leaf denti- 
culate on the margin; spots copious, immersed, scattered, whitish ; 
flowers not seen. 
SoutH AFRICA: without locality. 
Described from a living plant obtained from Berlin, in the Kew collection 1885. 
Intermediate between G. nigricans and G. disticha. 
7. G. transvaalensis (Hort. De Smet. ex Baker in Journ. Bot. 1889, 
44); rosette distichous or slightly oblique; leafy stem short ; leaves 
about 8, lorate, dark green, rather glossy, 4—5 in. long, an inch broad, 
1 in, thick in the centre, face not excavated, border not thickened, 
but toothed towards the white, horny, deltoid-cuspidate apex ; spots 
i hia immersed, aggregated into transverse bands; flowers 
unknown. 
KanAHakiI Recion: Transvaal, 
Described from a living plant in the Kew collection in 1885, Allied to 
G, nigricans. 
8. G. brevifolia (Haw. Syn. 89); leafy stem 1-1} in. long; 
leaves 10-12, densely crowded, lingulate, 3-4 in. long, 2 in. broad, 
very thick, rather glossy, but not so rigid and smooth as in G. 
nigricans, rounded, and with a cusp and continuously horny at 
the tip, tubercled, but never doubled on the margin, spots small, 
white, immersed, the clasping base with a reddish-white horny 
border; peduncle usually simple; raceme 13-2 ft, long; pedicels 
i-+ in. long ; bracts minute, lanceolate ; perianth $~2 in. long, ball 
oblong, 3 in. diam. Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1827, 351; Baker in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 186. Aloe brachyphylla, Salm-Dyck, Hort. 
Dykensis 332 ; Aloe, sect. xxix. fig. 8; Kunth, Enum. iv. 535. 
Sourn Argica : without locality. 
Cultivated in England by Mr. Hill before 1809. 
9. G. obtusifolia (Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1827, 351); leafy stem 
13-2 in. long; leaves 12-16, distichous, lingulate, densely crowded, 
4—6 in. long, 2-23 in. broad, broadly rounded and with a minute 
cusp at the apex, tubercled on the edge below it, 3 in. thick in the 
middle, never doubled on the margin, quite smooth on the surfaces, 
with copious, small, immersed whitish spots; peduncle simple, above 
a foot long; raceme 13 ft. long; pedicels 4-3 in. long; bracts 
minute, lanceolate ; perianth {-1 in. long, ball oblong, }—} in. diam. 
Baker in Journ, Linn. Soe. xviii, 186. Alve obtusifolia, Salm- 
