Aloe.| LILIACER (Baker). 317 
recurved, ensiform, 1~1} ft. long, 14-2 in. broad low down, } in. 
thick in the centre, tapering gradually from the middle to a long 
point, green with a slight glaucous tinge, obscurely lineate towards 
the base, mottled with copious, irregular, whitish, oblong spots; mar- 
gin with spreading, horny, deltoid-cuspidate prickles 4-1 in. long ; 
peduncle slender, simple or forked, above a foot long ; raceme oblong, 
2 ft. long ; pedicels ascending, 4-2 in. long; bracts small, lanceolate ; 
perianth bright yellow, tinted with red when young, 1} in. long ; 
tube short; stamens slightly exserted. Thunb. Fl. Cap. edit. 
Schult. 309; Haw. Syn. 76; Kunth, Enum. iv. 530; Bentl. and 
- Trimen, Medic. Plants, t. 284. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality. 
Interior of the colony, according to Thunberg. Rare in cultivation; intro- 
troduced in 1795. My description of the flower was taken from a plant in Mr. 
Peacock’s collection in 1879, the same, I believe, from which Bentley and 
Trimen’s figure was drawn. 
$4. A. tenuior (Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1825, 281); stem 
many yards long when fully developed, sarmentose ; branches terete, 
¢-3 in, diam, ; internodes 3~1 in. long, obscurely striped with green ; 
leaves linear, 6-8 in. long, about 3 in. broad low down, 3, in. thick 
in the centre, plain green, not auricled at the base; all the marginal 
teeth very minute; peduncles slender, simple, 6-9 in. long ; racemes 
moderately dense, 4—6 in. long; lower pedicels }~3 in. long ; bracts 
very minute ; perianth cylindrical, pale yellow, 4-3 in. long; segments 
short, ovate; stamens and style both distinctly exserted. Roem. et 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 704; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxv. fig. 3; 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 529 ; Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc, xviii. 169. 
Coast Region: Albany Div.; Karoo near Fort Brown, 1500 ft., MacOwan, 
1140! Bedford Div.; near the Fish River, Burke! Bathurst Div.; near the 
iw River, Drége, 3525! Fort Beaufort Div.; banks of the Kat River, Zeyher, 
2! 
Introduced into cultivation by Bowie in 1820. 
35. A. ciliaris (Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1825, 281); stem many 
yards long when fully developed, sarmentose; branches terete, 
z—} in, diam. ; leaves laxly disposed over a foot or more, with inter- 
nodes 5-{ in. long, obscurely striped with green; blade linear, 
amplexicaul, 4—6 in. long, 3-2 in. broad, acuminate, green, flat on 
the face in the lower half, ,!; in. thick in the middle, neither spotted 
nor striped ; teeth of the margin minute, deltoid, white, growing 
gradually larger towards the base of the leaf; peduncle slender, 
simple, lateral, 3-9 in. long; raceme lax, oblong, 2-4 in. long . 
pedicels 3} in. long ; bracts minute, lanceolate ; perianth cylindrical, 
bright red, 1-11 in. long; tube cylindrical; segments oblong; 
stamens not exserted ; style finally exserted. Roem. et Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. vii. 703; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxv. fig. 1; Kunth, 
Enum. iv. 529; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 169. 
Coast Region: Bathurst Div.; between Riet Fontein and Kowie River, 
