314 LILI{ACEZ (Baker). _ [Aloe. 
24. A. macratantha (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 167); 
stem reaching a length of 2-3 feet and a diameter of 2-3 in. below 
the dense rosette of leaves; leaves 20-30, oblong-lanceolate, 1-1} 
ft. long, 3-5 in. broad in the lower half, narrowed gradually from 
the middle to the tip, } in. thick in the centre, nearly flat on the 
face, bright green, with copious, distinct, darker green, vertical lines 
and oblong whitish blotches, much paler on the convex back ; 
margin with horny, brown-tipped, deltoid-cuspidate prickles j{ in. 
long, the outer leaves much recurved ; peduncle stout, flattened 
downwards, simple or forked, above a foot long; raceme dense, 
capitate, about 4 in. long and broad ; pedicels 1-1} in. long; bracts 
lanceolate-deltoid, acuminate, shorter than the pedicels ; perianth 
bright yellow with a tinge of red, 14-14 in. long; tube shorter than 
the segments, constricted above the ovary; stamens as long as the 
perianth. Bot. Mag. t. 6580. 
Soutn Argica: without locality, Cooper / 
Described from living plants introduced by Cooper about 1860. 
25. A. obscura (Miller, Gard. Dict. edit. viii. No. 6); stem 4-1 ft. 
long below the rosette of leaves, about 2 in. diam. ; leaves 15-30, 
lanceolate, about a foot long, 2-3 in. broad low down, narrowed 
gradually from below the middle to the tip, } in. thick in the middle, 
green or more or less glaucous, especially when young, not distinctly 
lineate, marked with copious, distinct, oblong, whitish spots; teeth 
of the margin deltoid-cuspidate, »,—4 in. long; peduncle simple or 
forked, 13-2 ft. long; raceme dense, cylindrical, 3-1 ft. long; lower 
pedicels 1-1} in. long ; bracts deltoid-euspidate, much shorter than 
the pedicels ; perianth bright red, 1}-1} in. long; tube slightly con- 
stricted above the ovary; segments shorter than the tube; stamens 
and style slightly exserted. Haw. Syn. 82; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. 
- Veg. vii. 700; Kunth, Enum. iv. 526; Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. 
xviii, 165. A. perfoliata var. obscura, Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 467. 
A, maculosa, Lam. Eneye.i. 87, in part. A. picta, Thunb. Diss. 
No. 4, m part. DC. Plantes Grasses, t. 97; Sims in Bot. Mag. 
t. 1323 ; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxiii. fig. 2. 
CentTazat Reaion: near Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 598! 
Introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and 
figured by Dillenius in Hortus Elthamensis, 16, Jig. 16." 
26. A. grandidentata (Salm-Dyck, Hort. 329 ; Aloe, sect. xxiii. 
fig. 4); stem 3-1 ft. long, simple, 2-21 in, diam. below the dense 
rosette of leaves ; leaves 12-20, lanceolate, 1-12 ft. long, 23-3 in. 
broad in the lower half, narrowed gradually from the middle to the 
apex, ¢ in. thick in the middle; face bright green with wavy trans- 
verse bands of oblong whitish spots; marginal teeth crowded, del- 
toid-cuspidate, brown-tipped, } in. long; peduncle robust, 14-2 ft. 
long; racemes 3-7, oblong, the end one 6-8 in. long ; lower pedicels 
3 in. long ; bracts as long as the lower pedicels ; perianth pale red oF 
