Gasteria.} LILIACEZ (Baker). 295 
long ; bracts small, lanceolate ; perianth $~2 in. long, ball oblong, 
Zin. dian. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 190. 
Coast ReGion : Uitenhage Div., Bolus ! 
Introduced into cultivation about 1870. 
24, G. spiralis (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 189) ; leafy 
stem 4-6 in. long; leaves 16-28, crowded, arranged in a spirally 
twisted rosette, lorate, erecto-patent, glossy, dark green, 4-6 in. long, 
12 in. broad, apex deltoid-cuspidate, border neither doubled nor 
tubercled, face flat, back rounded, centre } in. thick, spots on the 
surfaces copious, whitish, immersed, eclasping base furnished 
with a red horny border; peduncle simple, a foot long; raceme 
1-1} ft. long; lower pedicels 3-1 in. long; bracts lanceolate, as 
long as the pedicels ; perianth 3 in. long, ball oblong, } in. diam. 
Var. tortulata (Baker, loc. cit.); leaf 5-6 in. long, more narrowed upwards, 
and sometimes doubled on one border. 
Sours Arrica: without locality. 
First described from living plants in the Kew collection in 1872. Also sent 
home alive from the Cape by Sir H. Barkly in 1879. May be only a variety of 
G. nigricans. 
25. G. picta (Haw. in Phil, Mag. 1827, 349); shortly caulescent ; 
leafy part of stem 6-8 in. long ; leaves 12-20, laxly arranged in a 
spirally distichous rosette, lorate-ensiform, all erecto-patent, 4-1 ft. 
long, 13-2 in. broad, 3 in. thick at the base, dark glossy green, 
with copious, immersed, distinct white spots, flat on the face, one 
border often doubled, apex deltoid-cuspidate, margin below it not 
tubercled, dilated: base with a broad red horny horder ; peduncle 
often branched ; racemes 1-14 ft. long; lower pedicels j-} in. 
long ; bracts lanceolate, as long as the pedicels ; perianth §~j in. 
long, ball oblong, }-} in. diam. Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xviii. 
191. Aloe bowieana, Roem, et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 662 ; Salm- 
Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxix. fig. 3; Kunth, Enum, iv. 536. 
Van. 8, G. formosa (Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1827, 350) ; leaves narrower ; spots 
purer white. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality. : 
Introduced into caltivation by Bowie about 1827. Intermediate between 
G. nigricans and @. maculata. 
26. G. maculata (Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1827, 349); shortly 
caulescent ; leafy BS of stem often } ft. long, leaves eye 
laxly disposed in a spirally twisted rosette, lorate, —— é 
erecto-patent, firm in texture, 4-6 in. long, about an inch broad, = 
thick in the centre, smooth and tinted with 2m Se a 
Spots copious, large, white and confluent, one border ou led, ige 
not tubercled, clasping base with a red horny cribagll aegriaioe 
1-1} ft. long, usually simple ; racemes a foot or more al ste 
pedicels 3-1 in. long; bracts lanceolate ; perianth , Page rms 
oblong, } in. diam. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. : 
