Gasteria. | LILIACEZ (Baker). 293 
Aloe, sect. xxix. fig. 22; Kunth, Enum. iv. 545. A. obscura, Willd, in 
Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. v. 275.—A.africana, ete., Miller, Ic. t. 19. 
Sours Argica: without locality. 
Introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Salm- 
Dyck distinguishes two varieties, unilateralis and multifaria, 
16. G. dicta (N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1876, vi. 68, fig. 18) ; 
leafy stem 2 in. long ; leaves 12-14 in a slightly spiral rosette, lorate, 
4-5 in. long, 14 in. broad, firm in texture, very smooth, dull green, 
with one side often doubled, deltoid-cuspidate at the apex, toothed 
and tubercled below it, spots on face small, whitish and immersed ; 
pedunele simple or branched; racemes 1-13 ft. long; pedicels 
t-3 in. long; bracts small, lanceolate; perianth % in. long, ball 
oblong, } in. diam. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii, 189. G. sub- 
nigricans var. torta, Hort. 
Sour Argica : without locality. 
Described from living plants in the Kew collection. History unknown. 
17. G. retata (Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1827, 350); leafy stem about 
3 in. long; leaves 10-12, crowded, spirally distichous, ensiform, 
outer spreading, inner ascending, a foot long, 13-1} in. broad, 
3-3 in. thick low down, one border doubled, surface smooth, 
spots small and immersed, apex deltoid-cuspidate and toothed and 
borders tubercled ; peduncle branched ; racemes a foot long; lower 
pedicels }~3 in. long; braets small, lanceolate ; perianth } in. long, 
bal] oblong, } in. diam. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe, xviii. 189. 
Aloe dictyodes, Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 663 ; Salm-Dyck, 
Aloe, sect. xxix. fig. 4; Kunth, Enum. iv. 539. 
_ Sours Arrica: without locality. 
Introduced into cultivation by Bowie in 1826. 
18. G. cheilophylla (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 189); 
leafy stem about 2 in. long; leaves 14-18 in a much twisted dis- 
tichous rosette, ensiform, erecto-patent, 9-12 in. long, 1-15 in. 
broad low down, narrowed to a deltoid-cuspidate apex, sometimes 
doubled on one edge, dark green, with copious, confluent, slightly 
raised white spots, tip with an entire white horny margin, spots 
of the edge more raised than those of the face ; flowers not seen. 
G. undata, Hort. non Haw. 
Sourn Argica: without locality. i 
Deseri ivi in the Kew and Peacock collections. History not 
koown: Leaf a ere packs Pe most like G@. puéchra, but the leafy stem 
much s r, 
19. G. pallescens (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 190); leafy 
stem about 2 in. long; leaves 8-10, crowded, ensiform, outer 
spreading, inner erecto-patent, } ft. long, an inch broad, }—} in. 
thick at the base, } in. in the centre, not doubled on the border, 
apex with a toothed horny border, edge not tubercled, surfaces 
with very copious, confluent, greenish-white immersed spots ; peduncle 
