Aloe. } LILIAcE# (Baker). 819 
tinged with red when young ; pedicels very short; bracts minute ; 
perianth 13 in. long; tube short, campanulate; stamens and. style 
much exserted. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality. : 
: — from a plant flowered by Marchese Hanbury at La Mortola, June, 
2, 
40. A. distans (Haw. Syn. 78) ; stem simple, elongated, suberect ; 
leaves laxly disposed over the top one or two feet of the stem, 
ovate-lanceolate, all ascending, 3-4 in. long, 13-2 in. broad at the 
base, narrowed gradually to the tip, dull green, with a slight glaucous 
tint, ‘concave on the face, } in. thick in the middle, neither spotted 
nor lineate, rounded on the back; margin with deltoid, white, horny 
prickles +,~3 in. long, which extend to the keel towards the top of 
the back; peduncle above a foot long, simple; raceme dense, 
capitate, 3-4 in. diam.; lower pedicels 1-1} in. long; bracts small, 
lanceolate-deltoid ; perianth reddish-yellow, 13-1} in. long; tube 
short ; segments elongated ; stamens and style about as long as the 
perianth. Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 714; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, 
sect, xxiv. fig.1; Kunth, Enum. iv. 528; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xviii. 171. 4. mitreformis var. angustior, Lam. Eneye. i, 87. 
A. mitreformis var. brevifolia, Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 1362. A. 
brevifolia, Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vii. 23, non Syn. 80. 
SourH AFRIca: without locality, living cultivated plants! 
Tntroduced into cultivation about 1735. 
41. A, mitriformis (Miller, Gard. Dict. edit. viii. No.1); stem 3 
or 4 feet long when developed, simple, 1-2 in. diam. ; leaves laxly 
disposed, all ascending, ovate-lanceolate, + ft. long, 2-3 in. broad 
low down, 3-1 in. thick in the middle, firm in texture, dull green, 
with a slight glaucous tinge, neither spotted nor distinctly striped, 
pungent at the tip; margin with pale, deltoid, horny prickles 
Tz-3 in. long; peduncle stout, above a foot long, often forked ; 
Taceme dense, corymbose, half a foot long and broad ; lower pedicels 
1-1} in. long ; bracts small, lanceolate-deltoid ; perianth cylindrical, 
bright red, 13-1} in. long; tube short ; segments lanceolate, tipped 
With green; stamens about as long as the perianth. Lam. Encye. 
i. 87; DC. Plantes Grasses, t. 99 ; Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 1270; Haw. 
Syn. 77; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 171. 4. xanthacantha, 
Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxiv. fig. 3. ce 
VaR. illd. in Ges, Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. v. ; 
smaller, aie Rees ow phon leaves, 4-5 in. long, with a few prickles < 
the back ; marginal prickles white, deltoid. Salm- Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxiv. fig. 5. 
A. mitreformis var. humilior, Haw. in Trans, Linn. Soc. vii. 23. 
Var. y, A. spinulosa (Salm-Dyck, Obs. 4; Aloe, sect. xxiv. fig. 6); leaves 
copiously prickly all over the back, i wap ten Pa we 
é i i nn. . vii. 22; 3 ; 
sacupiccimene mater sans ee ies an inch broad; prickles straw- 
coloured. Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxiv. fig. 2; Kunth, Enum. iv. 627, 
Van. ¢, A. xanthacantha (Willd, in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. v. 282) ; leaves 
