320 LiLiace® (Baker). [ Aloe. 
thicker and more spreading; prickles small, deltoid, straw-yellow. A. mitra- 
formis, Salm-Dyek, Aloe, sect. xxiv. fig. 4. 
Var. ¢, pachyphylla (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 172); leaves thick, 
spreading, dull purplish on both sides, nearly flat on the face, with only one or two 
reduced prickles on the back near the top; marginal prickles small, deltoid, the 
same colour as the leaf. 
South Arrica: without locality, living cultivated plants! 
Coast Recion: New Kioof, near Tulbagh, MacQwan, 2985 ! 
Introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The 
type is figured by Dillenius in Hortus Elthamensis, t. 17, fig. 19. 
42. A. albispina (Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 22; Syn. 78); 
stem simple, elongated, suberect, 1-13 in. diam.; leaves laxly 
disposed, ovate-lanceolate, all ascending, 6-8 in. long, 2 in. broad 
low down, plain green; back slightly prickly ; margin with close, 
deltvid-cuspidate, whitish, horny prickles 41-1 in. long; peduncle 
simple, 14 ft. long; raceme dense, 4 ft. long, 4 in. diam. ; lower 
pedicels 14-1} in. long ; bracts lanceolate-deltoid, half as long as 
the pedicels ; perianth cylindrical, bright red, 14 in. long; tube 3 in. 
long ; stamens about as long as the perianth. Roem. et Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. vii. 712; Kunth, Enum. iv. 527; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xviii. 172. 
Sourn Arica: without locality. 
Introduced into cultivation by Masson in 1796. Scarcely more than a variety 
of A. mitriformis. 
43. A. nobilis (Haw. Syn. 78) ; stem less elongated and stouter 
than in A. mitriformis, rarely forked; leaves rather lax, ascending, 
lanceolate, about 1 ft. long, 24-3 in. broad low down, 3-2 in, thick 
in the centre, green, without spots or stripes, flat in the lower half; 
margin with brown, deltoid, horny prickles 3-1 in. long, a few of 
which extend to the back of the leaf ; peduncle simple, 14 ft. long ; 
raceme dense, 6-8 in. long; lower pedicels 14-2 in. long; bracts 
oblong, much shorter than the pedicels; perianth cylindrical, bright 
red, 1{~1} in. long; tube }-3 in. long; segments lanceolate, tipped 
with green: stamens as long as the perianth; style exserted. 
Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 713; Kunth, Enum, iv. 528; 
Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxiv. fig. 7. A mitreformis var. spinosior, 
Haw. in Trans, Linn. Soc. vii. 23. 
Sours Arzica: without locality. 
Introduced into cultivation about 1800, 
_44. A. Brownii (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1889, 44); stem tall, 
simple, below the rather lax rosette of leaves, 2-3 in. thick; leaves 
lanceolate, about a foot and a half long, 3-4 in. broad low down, 
plain green, neither spotted nor striped, 1 in. thick in the middle, 
flat on the face in the lower third, narrowed gradually from the 
middle to the pungent tip; margin with close, deltoid-cuspidate, 
brown-tipped prickles }~} in, long; peduncle stout, simple, above ® 
foot long, with many ovate empty bracts; raceme dense, simple, 
