316 LILIACEEZ (Baker). [ Aloe. 
longer than the segments; stamens and style as long as the perianth, 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 166. 
Sours Arrica: without locality. 
Described from a living plant that flowered at Kew in April, 1877. 
30 A. microstigma (Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxvi. fig. 4) ; stem elon- 
gated below the rosette of leaves, slender, simple; leaves 20-30 in a 
dense rosette, ensiform, 4-1 ft..long, 14 in. broad low down, {-3 in. 
thick in the centre, glaucous green, with a flat face and numerous 
small whitish oblong spots ; margin with small, brown, horny, déltoid- 
cuspidate prickles; peduncle simple, about a foot long, with many’ 
broad empty bracts; raceme dense, oblong-cylindrical, 6-9 in. long; 
pedicels ascending, 3-3 in. long; bracts oblong, half as long as the 
pedicels; perianth greenish-yellow, in. long; segments much 
longer than the tube; stamens slightly exserted. Baker in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xviii. 167. A. arabica, Salm-Dyck, Cat. 27; Roem, et 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 698, excl. syn. 
SourH A¥rrica: without locality, living cultivated plant ! 
Introduced into cultivation about 1816. 
$1. A. Monteiroi (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1889, vi. 523); stem 
very short; leaves about a dozen in a dense rosette, ensiform, a foot 
long, an inch broad low down, tapering gradually to the point, 
channelled down the face in the upper half, copiously but obscurely 
spotted on both surfaces, armed with middle-sized, not very close, 
deltoid-cuspidate teeth ; peduncle simple, terete, 14 ft. long ; raceme 
moderately dense, 4-6 in. long, 23 in. diam.; pedicels ascending, 
+++ in. long; bracts linear; perianth cylindrical, an inch long, dull 
red ; tube constricted above the ovary; segments oblong, 3 in. long ; 
stamens and style considerably exserted beyond the tip of the 
perianth-segments, 
Eastern Reoion: Delagoa Bay, Mrs. Monteiro! 
Described from a living plant which flowered at Kew, October, 1889. 
32. A. consobrina (Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xviii. fig. 3); stem 
slender, elongated, simple, below the rosette of leaves ; leaves laxly 
disposed or more dense, ensiform, 6-8 in. long, an inch broad, 
¢ in, thick in the centre, green, with copious, distinct, whitish, round 
or oblong spots ; margin with close, red-brown, deltoid-cuspidate 
prickles 4,—} in. long; peduncle above a foot long, slender, simple 
or forked ; racemes oblong-cylindrical, 3-4 in. long; pedicels }-} in- 
long ; bracts small, lanceolate, acute ; perianth reddish-yellow, 1-1; 
in. long ; tube short, campanulate ; stamens about as long as the 
perianth, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 168. 
SourH Argica: without locality, 
Introduced into cultivation about 1845. A near ally of A. spicata. 
33. A. spicata (Linn. fil. Suppl. 205); stem elongated below the 
leaves, simple; leaves 12-20, laxly disposed, patent or the lower 
