310 : LILIACEZ (Baker). [ Aloe. 
Sours Arrica: without locality. 
Introduced into cultivation by Ecklon about 1836, Burchell’s A. claviflora is 
only described very briefly, and no specimens seem to have been kept; it was 
collected among rocks at Riffle River in Fraserburg Division. 
15. A. brevifolia (Miller, Gard. Dict, edit. viii. No, 8); old plants 
with a stem a few inches long, 3 in. diam. below the rosette of leaves ; 
leaves 30-40 in a dense rosette, lanceolate-deltoid, 3-4 in. long, an 
inch broad at the base, narrowed gradually to the apex, j—} in. thick 
in the middle, very glaucous, without either spots or distinct lines; 
margin with white, lanceolate-deltoid, horny prickles ~,—} in. long, 
which extend to the keel of the upper part of the back ; pedunele 
stout, simple, about a foot long, with many deltoid empty bracts; 
raceme dense, simple, 6-9 in. long; pedicels 4-1 in. long ; bracts del- 
toid, rather shorter than the pedicels ; perianth cylindrical, pale red, 
1}-1¥ in. long ; tube cylindrical, shorter than the segments ; stamens 
equalling the perianth; style considerably exserted. DC. Plantes 
Grasses, t. 81; Haw. Syn. 80; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 996; Sulm- 
Dyck, Aloe, sect. xvi. fig. 1; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 160, 
non Haworth, A. prolifera, Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 16; — 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 519. 
Van. B, A. postgenita (Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 1714) ; more robust, 
with leaves 4-5 in. long, 14-14 in. broad low down, Kunth, Enum. iv. 519. 
A. prolifera var, major, Salm-Dyck, Cat. 23; Haw. Suppl, 44. 
Var. 7, A. depressa (Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 16 ; Syn. 80, excl. syn.) ; 
more robust, with leaves } ft. long, 2 in. broad low down, rather less glaucous 
than in the type, with sometimes a few prickles extending to the upper surface. 
Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xvi. fig. 3; Kunth, Enum. iv. 519. 
Soutu Arica : without locality, living cultivated plants! 
Introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Two 
_of the varieties are figured by Commelyn in his Preludia, tt. 21 and 22. 
16. A. Serra (DC. Plantes Grasses, t. 80); old plants with a 
short simple stem below the rosette of leaves; leaves 30-40 in a 
dense rosette, laneeolate-deltoid, 4-5 in. long, 1-13 in. broad low 
down, narrowed gradually to the tip, glaucous, unspotted, not 
distinctly lineate, }-1 in. thick in the middle, with a few white 
tubercles on the back and sometimes on the face; margin with 
deltoid, white, horny prickles ,3,—1 in. long, confluent into a horny 
line; peduncle simple, about a foot long; raceme dense, simple, 
about 2 ft. long ; pedicels }~1 in. long ; bracts about as long as the 
pedicels ; perianth cylindrical, bright. red, liin, long; tube cylin- 
drical, shorter than the segments; stamens as long as the perianth ; 
style exserted. Jacg. Fragm. t. 61; Haw. Suppl. 44; oem. et 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 687 ; Kunth, Enum. iv. 519. 
SourH Arica: without locality. 
Le wne into cultivation about 1818, Scarcely more than @ variety of 
17. A. lineata (Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 18; Syn. 79); 
stem finally 3-1 ft. long below the rosette of leaves, ‘amp 4 in. 
diam. ; leaves 30-40 in a dense rosetie, lanceolate, about a foot long, 
