802 LILIACEX (Baker) ‘ [ Gasteria. 
farious rosette, lanceolate, 3-4 in. long, about an inch broad low 
down, gradually narrowed to a deltoid-cuspidate apex, face slightly 
concave, obliquely keeled on the back, green, with copious 
nearly immersed distinct white spots, margin strongly tubercled ; 
peduncle simple, slender, about a foot long ; raceme 3-1 ft. long; 
pedicels } in. long; bracts lanceolate, as long as the pedicels; perianth 
subeylindrical, § in. long, 3 in. diam, in the lower half ; tips of the 
segments spreading. Aloe Bayfieldit, Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxix. 
Jig. 14; Kunth, Enum. iv. 538. 
SoutH ArRicaP without locality. 
First described from the collection of Mr. Hitchin, of Norwich, in 1828. 
G. apicroides, Baker, in Jowrn. Linn. Soc. xviii. 197; is an allied form, with 
20-30 leaves on a stem about half a foot long. 
SourH Argica: without locality, living plants introduced about 1862 by 
T. Cooper ! 
G. squarrosa, Baker, in Journ, Linn. Soe, xviii. 197; another allied form with 
a long leafy stem and 20-30 squarrose leaves, with a concave face and much less 
distinct spots. ; ‘ 
Sourn Arrica: without locality. 
Both of these were described from living plants at Kew about 1878. 
VIII. ALOE, Linn. 
Perianth subcylindrical, straight or slightly recurved ; tube cam- 
panulate or cylindrical; segments elongated, much imbricated, 
spreading only at the tip. Stamens 6, hypogynous, equalling or 
exceeding the perianth ; filaments subulate; anthers small, oblong, 
dorsifixed, versatile, dehiscing introrsely. Ovary sessile, oblong- 
trigonous ; ovules many, superposed; style filiform ; stigma small, 
capitate. Capsule oblong-trigonous, coriaceous, loculicidally 3-valved. 
Seeds triquetrous or flattened, often winged ; testa thin, brownish- 
black ; albumen fleshy; embryo straight. 
Caudex sometimes none, sometimes produced, simple or branched; leaves 
fleshy, usually multifarious and toothed on the margin, generally aggregated in a 
dense rosette; flowers usually bright red or bright yellow, racemose or umbellate ; 
pedicels solitary, short or elongated ; bracts persistent, scariose. 
Disteis. Species about 100; many Tropical African. Extends also to 
Madagascar, Socotra, India, China, Arabia, and the Mediterranean region. 
Subgenus }. Evarox. Perianth straight (rarely slightly curved); leaves 
multifarious in the mature plant, except in A. Cooperi. 
Group 1. Acaules. Stem none, or very short below the dense rosette of leaves. 
Stamens and style about as long as the perianth : 
Leaves narrowly linear ; teeth very minute: 
Raceme short, subcapitate ... ‘ .. (1) minima. 
Raceme long, lax ... ...  ....... (2) -~kmiphofioides. 
Leaves linear; teeth very minute : 
Perianth 14-1} in. long: 
Leaves distichous ... .., .... (3) Cooperi. 
Leaves multifarious .. ie .. (4) micracantha. 
Perianth 4-3 in. long: 
Perianth straight wes Beas ee) eee, 
Perianth curved... ... 4. «. (6) myriacantha. 
