Gasteria.] LILIACEZ (Baker), 301 
cence; racemes 5-6, forming a deltoid panicle; pedicels 3-3 in. 
long; bracts lanceolate ; perianth 14-2 in. long, with an oblong- 
cylindrical tube } in. diam. Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xviii. 196. 
Aloe candicans, Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 681; Salm-Dyck, 
Aloe, sect. xxix. fig. 13; Kunth, Enum. iv. 538. G. linita, Haw. 
loc. cit. : 
Sour Arrica: without locality. 
Introduced into cultivation at Kew about 1820, probably by Bowie. 
43. G. Croucheri (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 196) ; leafy 
stem 13-2 in. long; leaves 12-18, arranged in a dense multifarious 
rosette, lanceolate, 12-15 in. long, 3-3} in. broad and #-1 in. thick 
low down, narrowed gradually to a deltoid-cuspidate tip, face con- 
cave, back obliquely keeled, smooth, dark green, with copious, 
small, immersed, greenish-white spots, edges smooth or obscurely 
papillose; pedunele 3-4 ft. long including the inflorescence ; 
racemes several, forming a deltoid panicle; pedicels }—} in. long; 
bracts lanceolate ; perianth 12-2 in. long, tube oblong-cylindrical, 
¢in. diam. G. natalensis, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 187. 
Aloe Croucheri, Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag. t. 5812. 
Eastern Reaion: Natal, living plants introduced about 1862 by T. Cooper! 
und M. J. McKen! 
G. natalensis is the juvenile state of G. Crowcheri. 
44. G. Peacockii (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xviii. 195) ; leafy 
stem 2-3 in. long; leaves 12-15, arranged in a dense multifarious 
rosette, lanceolate, 9-12 in.-long, 2 in. broad low down, and }~$ in. 
thick, gradually narrowed to a deltoid-cuspidate apex, face concave, 
back obliquely keeled, green, with a few immersed scattered whitish 
spots, principally on the back, margin rugose with raised white 
tubercles ; flowers unknown. 
A garden hybrid between G. acinactfolia var. ensifolia and Aloe heteracantha, 
raised by Pfersdorff in Paris about 1875. A similar hybrid, of which the 
parentage is not known, had long been cultivated by Mr. Bullen at the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden, of which he sent me flowers in February, 1883. This has an 
ensiform leaf about a foot long, and 14-1} in. broad low down, a branched in- 
fluorescence, a cylindrical pale red perianth under an inch long, with segments 
twice as long as the tube and included stamens. 
45. G. pethamensis (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 193); leafy 
stem 13-2 in. long; leaves 16-20, crowded, multifarious, lanceolate, 
3—4 in, long, 2-1 in. broad low down, dark green, tinged with purple 
when old, narrowed gradually to the tip, }-3 in. thick, face concave, 
back obliquely keeled, surfaces furnished with small scattered white 
raised spots, margins and keel prominently tubercled; flowers 
unknown. 
A garden hybrid between @. carinata and Aloe variegata, raised at Petham in 
Kent in 1840 he Mr. Ricketts. Its history is given in Gard. Chron, 1841, 183. 
46. G. Bayfieldii (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xviii. 197) ; leafy 
stem about 2 in. long; leaves 12-15, arranged in a dense multi- 
