308 LILIACEZ (Baker). [ Aloe. 
Linn. Sp. Plant. 458. A. tuberculata, Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soe. 
vii. 16; Syn. 84 (dwarf form). : 
Var. 8, Candollei (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 157); leaves greener, 
more distinctly lineate, less tubercled on the back ; prickles fewer; peduncle less 
bracteate. 4. humilis, DC. Plantes Grasses, t. 39; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xv. 
fig. 1. 
Sik y, A. incurva (Haw. Syn. 85); larger, the leaves broader low dowa, 
glaucous green, with an acuminate incurved tip. Salm- Dyck, Aloe, sect, xv. fig. 8. 
A, humilis var. incurva, Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 828. 
Var. 5, A. acuminata (Haw. Syn. 84); leaves ovate-lanceolate, 4—5 in. long, 
14-1} in. broad low down, glaucous; marginal prickles larger, 3-} in. long. 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 517. A. humilis, Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 757. 
Var. e, A. subtuberculata (Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1825, 280); smaller than the 
last, with smaller, closer prickles. P 
Var. ¢, A. suberecta (Haw. Syn. 84); largest form of all, with leaves 6-7 in. 
long. : 
Var. , macilenta (Baker) ; leaves thinner, tinged purple, deeply channelled 
down the face. 5 
Var, 0, A. echinata (Willd. Enum. 385); leaves smaller than in type, with 
distinct prickles, not tubercles, on the face. Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xv. fig. 23 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 516. 
Sout Arrica. without locality, living cultivated plants! 
— Reaion: Uitenhage, Burke! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, 
urke ! 2s 
Introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the eighteenth century. 
10. A. pratensis (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 156); 
acaulescent ; leaves 60-80, ovate-lanceolate, densely rosulate, 4-6 
in. long, 1j-1} in. broad below the middle, acuminate, glaucous 
when young only, 3 in. thick in the centre, obscurely lineate on 
both sides, unspotted; margin with copious, lanceolate-deltoid, 
brown, horny teeth 3-1 in. long; back smooth or slightly prickly 
upwards ; peduncle very stout, under a foot long, furnished all the way 
up with copious, large, ovate-acuminate empty bracts ; raceme dense, 
simple, 3-1 ft. long ; pedicels ascending, 1-14 in. long; bracts ovate 
with a long cusp, as long as the pedicels; perianth subcylindrical, 
straight, pale or bright red tipped with green, 1-13 in. long; 
segments much longer than the tube ; stamens and style included or 
finally just exserted. Bot. Mag t. 6705. ; 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Ecklon and Zeyher, Hemerocallis No. 31! 
and living cultivated plants ! 
F Bol tes REGION : Somerset Div. ; summit of Bosch Berg, 4500 ft., MacOwan, 
Karanart Recton: Basutoland, living plant in Hort, Hanbur. ! 
11, A. virens (Haw. in Trans. Linn, Soc. vii. 17); acaulescent or — 
obscurely caulescent ; leaves 30-40, densely rosulate, lanceolate, very 
acuminate, ; ft. long, 1 in. broad low down, light green, obscurely 
lineate, tapering gradually from the base to the apex, } in. thick ; 
margin with pale, horny, deltoid prickles } in. long; back 
minutely tubercled ; peduncle simple, 6-9 in. long, with a few 
empty bracts; raceme lax, simple, 4 ft. long; pedicels ascending, — 
1-1} in. long ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, }—-} in. long ; perianth straight, — 
