294 LILIACEZ (Baker). [ Gasteria. 
simple, a foot or more long; raceme a foot long ; lower pedicels 
1_2 in. long ; bracts lanceolate, as long as the pedicels; perianth 
# in. long, ball oblong, { in. diam. 
Coast Reaion : living plant introduced about the year 1860 from Algoa Bay 
by T. Cooper ; 
20. G. porphyrophylla (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 190) ; 
leafy stem 14-2 in. long ; leaves 8-10, crowded, erecto-patent, lorate, 
7-8 in. long, an inch broad, dull purple, very smooth, doubled on 
one border, furnished with copious, immersed, confluent whitish spots, 
apex deltoid-cuspidate with a toothed horny border, edges below 
it not tubercled ; peduncle simple, a foot long; raceme a foot long ; 
lower pedicels 1-3 in. long; bracts lanceolate, as long as the 
pedicels ; perianth } in. long, ball oblong, 3 in. diam. 
Souts AFRIcA: without locality. 
Described from a living plant in the Kew collection, received from Mr. Tisley 
in 1873. Closely allied to G. pallescens. 
21. G. variolosa (Baker in Saund. Ref. Bot. t. 347); leafy stem 
14-2 in. long; leaves 15-18 in a spirally distichous rosette, crowded, 
ensiform, 8-9 in. long, 13 in. broad low down, narrowed gradually to 
a deltoid-cuspidate tip, smooth, dull green, firm in texture, concave 
on the face, not tubereled on the edge, one border sometimes doubled, 
spots immersed, copious, large, whitish and confluent ; peduncle simple, 
a foot or more long ; raceme 13 ft. long; lower pedicels 4—} in. long; 
bracts lanceolate ; perianth { in. long, ball oblong, } in. diam 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 190. 
Coast Rezerton : living plant introduced about the year 1860 from Algoa Bay 
by 2. Cooper ! 
22. G. Zeyheri (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xviii. 190); leafy 
stem 3 ft. long; leaves 16-20, laxly disposed in a twisted distichous 
rosette, all erecto-patent, lorate, 8-9 in. long, about an inch broad, 
smooth, firm in texture, flat on the face, apex deltoid-cuspidate, 
tubercled and not doubled on the edge, spots obscure and immersed, 
clasping base much dilated and vertically plicate ; peduncle simple, 
a foot long; raceme a foot or more long; lower pedicels j-} in. 
long ; bracts lanceolate ; perianth 2 in. long, ball oblong, } in. diam. 
Aloe Zeyheri, Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxix. fig. 3 bis. 
Sour AFrica: without locality. 
Introduced into cultivation by Zeyher. 
23. @. colubrina (N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1877, viii. 38) ; 
leafy stem 4-6 in. long; leaves 8-10, arranged in a spirally dis- 
tichous or almost multifarious rosette, lorate, erecto-patent, 9-14 in. 
long, 1} in. broad low down, } in. thick, smooth, bright green or purple, 
face concave, spots small, whitish, immersed, one border often 
doubled, apex deltoid-cuspidate, margins not tubercled; peduncle 
stout, branched, 4 ft. long including inflorescence; pedicels }-} in. 
