292 LILIACEE (Baker). : [Gasteria, 
12. G. mollis (Haw. Revis. 46, 203); leafy stem 1-1} ft. long; 
leaves 6-8, distichous, crowded, spreading, lingulate, 3-4 in. long, 
13-11 in, broad, 4-4 in. thick, dull green, with small immersed 
spots, apex deltoid-cuspidate, borders tubercled, base narrowly 
margined; pedunele simple, about a foot long; raceme simple, a 
foot long; lower pedicels $-4 in. long; bracts small, lanceolate ; 
perianth Zin. long, ball oblong, } in, diam. Haw. in Phil. Mag. 
1827, 351; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 187. Aloe mollis, 
Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 665; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxix. 
Jig. 38 ; Kunth, Enum. iv. 548. 
Sovrnu Arnica: without locality. 
Introduced into cultivation by Bowie in 1819. 
13. G. bicolor (Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1826, 275); leafy stem 4-5 
in. long; leaves 12-20, distichous, lorate, 8-9 in. long, 1}-1} in. — 
broad at the middle, deltoid-cuspidate at the apex, very rigid, very 
thick, a slightly glaueous green, slightly convex on the face in the 
lower half, more so on the back, with no spots except a few on the 
back towards the base, edges of the clasping base bright red; 
peduncle simple, above a foot long; raceme lax, above a foot long ; 
pedicels }~3 in. long; bracts small, lanceolate ; perianth $ in. long, 
much curved, ball oblong, iin. diam. Baker in Journ. Linn..Soc. 
xviii. 188. Aloe bicolor, Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 682 ; Salm- 
Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxix. fig. 5; Kunth, Enum. iv. 537. 
Soutn AFrRica: without locality. 
Introduced into cultivation about 1825. A very distinct species. 
14, G. planifolia (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 188); 
shortly caulescent ; leafy part of stem 6-10 in. long; leaves 6-10 
on a side, distichous, lax, ensiform, rigid, erecto-patent, 6-8 in. 
long, {~1 in. broad low down, { in. thick in the centre, glossy, dark 
green, with copious, confluent, white immersed blotches, like those of 
G. maculata; tip deltoid-cuspidate, horny, entire, margin below 
it neither thickened nor tubercled; peduncle simple, 1—14 ft. long; 
raceme a foot long; pedicels }~3 in. long ; bracts small, lanceolate; 
perianth { in. long, ball subglobose, nearly white, 4 in. diam, Aloe 
planifolia, Baker in Saund. Ref. Bot, t. 162. 
Coast Reeion: Living plants, introduced b 
T. Cooper ! © pens, nyrona from Algoa Bay about 1860 by 
_ 15. G. excavata (Haw. in Phil. Mag, 1827, 354) ; leafy stem 13-2 
in. long; leaves 12-16 in a more or less irregular distichous rosette, 
crowded, spreading, lorate, 4-6 in. long, 11-12 in. broad, pale dull 2 
green with small, immersed, indistinct whitish spots, deltoid-cuspidate 
at the apex, borders tubercled, one or both doubled ; peduncle 
simple, a foot or more long ; raceme a foot or more long ; lower pedicels 
4-2 in, long 5 bracts small, lanceolate; perianth an inch long, 
oblong, } in. diam, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 188. Aloe — 
excavata, Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. v. 276 ; Salm-Dyck, 
