Aloe.} LILIACEX (Baker). 811 
2 in. broad low down, narrowed gradually to the apex, }-} in. thick, 
glaucous-green, unspotted, flat in the lower part of the face, marked 
with very distinct green vertical lines, rounded and smooth on the 
back ; margin with close, reddish-brown, deltoid, horny prickles 3,—4 
in. long; peduncle simple, about a foot long; raceme dense, 2 ft. 
long ; lower pedicels 1-14 in. long; bracts lanceolate-deltoid, much 
shorter than the pedicels; perianth cylindrical, bright red, tipped 
with green ; tube cylindrical about 4 in. long; stamens and style 
scarcely exserted. Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 689; Salm- 
Dyck, Aloe, sect. xvii. fig. 1; Kunth, Enum. iv. 520; Baker in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xviii. 159. A. perfoliata var. lineata, Ait. Hort. Kew. 
i. 467, 
Sourn A¥gica: without locality. 
Introduced into cultivation about 1789. 
18. Aloe heteracantha (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 161); 
stem attaining a foot or more in height; leaves 15-30 in a dense 
rosette, lanceolate, 6-12 in. long, 1}-2} in. broad at the base, 
narrowed gradually to the concave apex, green or tinted with red- 
brown, obscurely lineate towards the base, often with a few irregular 
small whitish spots, and often marked down the face with one or 
two slightly-raised longitudinal ribs; margins usually armed 
with a few, short, irregular, spreading, deltoid prickles, but some- 
times quite smooth and unarmed, and without prickles on the upper 
or under surface; peduncle simple or branched, 1-3 ft. long, 
including the 6~10 in. long dense raceme ; bracts oblong-ovate, 
acute or acuminate, 4—6 lines long; pedicels }-1 in. long, ascending ; 
perianth drooping, cylindrical, 1}-1} in. long, tube very short, outer 
segments bright red, inner segments nearly white with a red keel; 
stamens included, 14-15 lines long. Bot. Mag. t. 6863 ; Gard. 
Chron. 1894, xv. 620. 
Sour Araica: without locality. 
Described frum living cultivated plants. Possibly this may not be a South 
African species, 
19. A. striata (Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 18; Syn. 81); old 
plants with a stem 1-2 ft. long below the dense rosette of leaves ; 
leaves 12-20, oblong-lanceolate, 13-2 ft. long, 4-8 in. broad, 
glaucous, obscurely spotted and lineate, }-} in. thick in the middle ; 
margin entire, cartilaginous, white or reddish, a line broad ; 
peduncle very stout, much branched, bearing 20 or more dense 
capitate racemes; lower pedicels }-} in. long; bracts minute, 
lanceolate ; perianth bright red, 3-1 in. long ; tube cylindrical, con- 
stricted above the ovary; stamens as long as the perianth ; style 
shortly exserted. Baker in ‘Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii, 162. A. 
paniculata, Jacg. Fragm, 48, t. 62; Roem. a Schultes, Syst. Veg. 
Vii. 691 ; Kunth, Enum. iv. 522. A. albo-cincta, Haw. Suppl. 43 ; 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 525. A. hanburiana, Naud. in Rev. Hort. 1875, 
165. ; 
