312 LILIACER (Baker). [ Aloe. 
Var. f, A. rhodocineta (Hort.); horny border of the leaf pinkisb. 
Var. +, oligospila (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1894, xv. 588); stem taller and 
firmer than in the type ; leaves narrower and not so thick, very glaucous, with 
a few obscure linear blotches on the back, the stripes quite lost when the leaves 
are mature. 
Coast Reaion; Albany Div. ; precipitous places near Grahamstown, 2200 ft., 
MacOwan, 1144! King Williamstown Div.; near the Chalumna River, living 
specimens of type and var. , introduced and grown by T. Cooper ! 
Introduced into cultivation about 1795. This and some of the other species, 
Mr, MacOwan says, are fertilized by the Nectarinee, and if the birds are kept off 
by wire-netting, few or no capsules are produced. This is the only Aloe without 
any teeth to the leaves. 
A. Lynchii (Baker in Gard, Chron. 1881, xv. 266) is a hybrid between this very 
distinct species and Gasteria verrucosa, with flowers like those of the present 
plant but with dull green leaves half an inch thick, narrowed gradually from the 
base to the tip, and dotted all over with minute whitish spots. Mr. Lynch also 
crossed it with Ad. grandidentata, and the hybrid flowered at Kew in 1884, 
20. A. serrulata (Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 18); mature 
plants with a stem 1-2 ft. long, 14-2 in. diam. below the dense 
‘rosette of leaves; leaves 12-20, oblong-lanceolate, 6-9 in. long, 
2 in. broad low down, narrowed gradually from below the middle to 
the point, }-} in. thick in the centre, pale green with indistinct 
lines and copious, obscurely seriate, oblong, whitish spots; 
margin with minute, deltoid, confluent, white, horny prickles; 
peduncle simple, about a foot long; raceme oblong, half a foot long ; 
lower pedicels 3—$ in. long; bracts deltoid-cuspidate, as long as the 
pedicels ; perianth bright red, 13-12 in. long, scareely constricted 
above the ovary; segments oblong, much shorter than the tube; 
stamens and style not exserted. Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 1415; Roem. 
et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 697; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xx. fig. br 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 522; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 163. A. 
perfoliata var. serrulata, Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 467. 
Sout Arnica: without locality, living cultivated plants ! 
Introduced into cultivation about 1789. A. pallescens, Haw. Revis. 41, is 
probably a variety with the lines and spots nearly obsolete. 
: 21, A. saponaria (Haw. Syn. 83); mature plants with a stem 
2-1 ft. long, 2-8 in. diam. below the dense rosette of leaves ; 
leaves 12-20, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 3-1 ft. long, 2 in. 
broad low down, t in. thick in the middle, green, or tinged with 
purple, indistinctly lineate with copious oblong whitish spots ; margin 
with deltoid, euspidate, horny, reddish-brown prickles }—} in. 
long ; peduncle simple or forked, about a foot along; raceme 
dense, capitate, 3-4 in. long and broad ; lower pedicels 14-2 in. 
long; bracts deltoid-cuspidate, much shorter than the pedicels; 
perianth bright red-yellow, 13-13 in. long; tube cylindrical, con- 
stricted above the ovary ; segments shorter than the tube; stamens 
not exserted. Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 699 ; Kunth, Enum. 
iv. 526 ; Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xviii. 164, A. disticha, Miller, 
Gard. Dict. edit. viii, No. 5. A. maculosa, Lam. Encyc. i. 87, im 
part. A, umbellata var. minor, DC. Plantes Grasses, t. 98. A. 
