Aloe.] LILIACEE (Baker). 309 
cylindrical, bright red, 13-2 in. long ; segments longer than the tube ; 
stamens and style finally just exserted. Haw. Syn. 83; Ker in 
Bot. Mag. t.1355 ; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xv. fig.8. Kunth, Enum. 
iv. 518; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 157. 
Var. 8, macilenta (Baker, loc. cit.); leaves smaller, thinner, tinged with 
purple, concave on the face. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality. 
Introduced into cultivation before 1790. 
12. A. Bowiea (Schult. fil. Syst. Veg. vii. 704); acaulescent ; 
leaves 30-40 in a dense multifarious rosette, all ascending or outer 
reflexing, linear, 4-6 in. long, } in. broad low down, tapering gradu- 
ally to the apex, glaucous green, nearly flat, rounded on the back, 
copiously dotted with white, often striped with brown towards the base ; 
margin with minute, whitish, deltoid prickles; peduncle slender, 
simple, about a foot long, with many small, lanceolate-deltoid, empty 
bracts ; raceme lax, about 4 ft. long; lower pedicels »,-} in. long; 
bracts small, lanceolate ; perianth clavate, greenish, } in. long ; tube 
short, campanulate ; stamens and style exserted {-} in. Salm-Dyck, 
Aloe, sect, xiv. fig. 1; Kunth, Enum. iv. 515; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xviii, 158. Bowiea africana, Haw. in Phil. May. 1824, 299 § 
1827, 123; A. DC. Pl. Rar. Jard, Genev. fase. vi, 21, t. 2. 
Sourn Argica : without locality, 
Iutroduced into cultivation by Bowie in 1822. 
13. A. longistyla (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xviii. 158) ; acau- 
lescent ; leaves about 30 in a dense rosette, lanceolate, ascending, 
green, unspotted, 4—6 in. long, an inch broad at the base, tapering 
gradually to the pungent horny apex; margin with pale brown, 
horny, deltoid prickles 4 in. long, many of which extend to the back 
and a few also to the face; peduncle stout, simple, about as long as 
the leaves; raceme dense, simple, 3-5 in. long; lower pedicels 3-¢ 
in. long ; bracts lanceolate-deltoid, #-1 in. long; perianth slightly 
curved, 12-2 in. long; tube less than half as long as the segments ; 
stamens slightly exserted ; style finally exserted } inch. 
Crenrrat Reeron: Karoo near Graaff Reinet, 2700 ft., Bolus, 689! Jansen- 
ville Div.; Zwart Ruggens, 2500-3000 ft., Drége, 8340! 
Nearly allied to A. humilis and A, virens. 
14. A. Ecklonis (Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxi. fig. 2); sub- 
acaulescent; leaves densely rosulate, ensiform, a foot long, 1;-1} in. 
broad low down, narrowed gradually to the apex, glaucous-green, 
unspotted ; face flat in the lower half, channelled down the upper 
half ; margin with close, small, whitish, horny teeth; peduncle 
simple, about a foot long, with numerous empty der: raceme 
dense, capitate, about 3 in. diam.; lower pedicels 1{-1] in. long ; 
bracts lanceolate-deltoid, 4 in. long; perianth orange-red, }-} in. 
long ; tube short ; stamens and style distinctly exserted. Baker in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 158. A. clavifora, Burchell, Travels, i. 272% 
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