Aloe.] LILIACEZ (Baker). 313 
umbellata, Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxiii. fig. 1. A. perfoliata var. 
saponaria, Ait. Hort, Kew. i. 467, excl. syn. A. saponaria var. 
minor, Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 17; Sims in Bot. Mag. 
t. 1460. 
Van. B, brachyphylla (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xviii, 164) ; leaves 3-4 in. 
long, ovate acuminate ; prickles smaller than in the type. 
Coast ReGion: Paarl Mountains, 1000-2000 ft., Drége, 8635! Caledon Div. ; 
mountains near Genadendal, 1400 ft., Bolus, 7430! 
Eastern REGIon: Pondoland, Bachmann, 264! 
Introduced into cultivation early in the eighteenth century, and figured by 
Dillenius in the Hortus Elthamensis, t. 14, fig. 15. 
22. A. latifolia (Haw. Syn. 82) ; stem simple, reaching 1-2 ft. in 
length, 2-3 in. diam. below the dense rosette of leaves; leaves 
12-20, oblong-lanceolate, 3-1 ft. long, 2-83 in. broad low down, 
¢-3 in. thick in the middle, glossy green, obscurely lineate, with 
irregular bands of linear-oblong or oblong, whitish blotches, }—-? in. 
long ; margin with deltoid-cuspidate, brown, horny prickles 4-1 in. 
long ; peduncle robust, simple or forked, 1-2 ft. long; racemes 
4-5 in, long and broad ; lower pedicels 13-2 in. long ; bracts very 
acuminate, an inch or more long; perianth bright red-yellow, 
1}-1} in. long ; tube longer than the segments, constricted above the 
Ovary; stamens not exserted. Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 
700 ; Kunth, Enum. iv. 526 ; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxiii. fig. 3; 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 164. A. saponaria var. latifolia, | 
Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 18; Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 1346. 
Coast Recron: Cathcart Div.; Tushintush, near Windvogel Mountain, 
8500 ft., Baur, 1121! 
CenTRat Recion: Karoo near Graaff Reinet, 2700 ft., Bolus, 751! 
Tntroduced into cultivation about 1795, probably by Masson. 
23. A. leptophylla (N. E. Brown ex Baker in Journ, Linn. 
Soc. xviii. 165); stem short, simple, 13-2 in. diam. below the 
rosette of leaves ; leaves 12-20, lanceolate, 9-12 in. long, 2-3 in. 
broad low down, tapering from the middle to the tip, 3 in. thick in 
the middle, green or purple tinted, distinctly lineate, with eopious, 
linear-oblong, whitish blotches ; marginal prickles deltoid, 3 in. long ; 
peduncle simple, 13 ft. long; raceme dense, capitate, about 3 in. 
long and broad ; pedicels 1-13 in. long; bracts small, lanceolate- 
deltoid, acuminate; perianth 1} in. long; segments much shorter 
than the cylindrical tube ; stamens as long as the perianth. Baker 
in Journ. Bot. 1889, 44. .A. Cooperi, Hort. de Smet. non Baker. 
Vax. 8, stenophylla (Baker) ; leaf as long, but not more than 14 in. broad. 
Sours Arrica: without locality, Cooper ! ; 
Described from living plants introduced by Cooper about 1860. It so ~ 
all its allies by its thinner, very flexible leaves. May be the imperfectly descri 
A, tenuifolia, Lam. Encyc. i. 87. 
