Aloe. ] LILIACEZ (Baker). 321 
4-8 in. long; pedicels 3-2 in. long; bracts ovate-oblong, nearly as 
long as the pedicels; perianth bright red-yellow, cylindrical, 1-1: in. 
long, cut down very nearly to the base ; stamens slightly exserted ; 
style exserted } in. A. nobilis var. densifolia, Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xviii. 172. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality. 
Has been in cultivation at Kew for many years, My description is taken from 
a plant that flowered in 1885. I have named it after Mr. N. E. Brown, who 
was the first to claim for it specific distinctness. 
45. A. sigmoidea (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 177) ; stem 
simple, elongated below the dense rosette of leaves ; leaves lanceo- 
late, 1-1} ft. long, 3 in. broad, } in. thick in the centre, dull green, 
slightly glaucous, unspotted, unarmed on the face, slightly 
prickly and tubereled towards the apex on the back, flat at the base, 
recurved at the apex ; margin with close, spreading, deltoid-cuspidate 
prickles 3-2 in, long; flowers unknown, 
Eastern Reeion; Amatonga country, Cooper ! 
Described from a living plant in Mr. Cooper’s collection in 1879. Most 
resembles A. salmdyckiana in habit and leaf. 
46. A. cesia (Salm-Dyck, Cat. 29; Aloe, sect. xvii. fig. 3); stem 
reaching a length of 10-12 ft. below the dense rosette of leaves ; 
leaves 30-40, lanceolate, acuminate, 1-14 ft. long, 2-3 in, broad 
low down, very glaucous, unspotted, not lineate, }-} in. thick in 
the centre, margined with red when young; prickles 
reddish, deltoid, 2, in. long; peduncle simple, about a foot long, 
with many deltoid empty bracts; raceme dense, 4 ft. long ; pedicels 
1-13 in.; bracts deltoid, half as long as the pedicels; perianth 
cylindrical, bright red, 1} in. long; segments about as long as the 
tube; stamens slightly exserted. Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. 
9 706; Kunth, Enum. iv. 531; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, xvi. 
2. 
Sours Arrica: without locality, living cultivated plants ! 
Introduced into cultivation about 1815. 
47. A. succotrina (Lam. Encye. i. 85); stem when mature 3-4 ft. 
long below the dense rosette of leaves, simple or forked; leaves 
, ensiform, 13-2 ft. long, 13-2 in. broad low down, } in. thick 
in the centre, tapering gradually from below the middle to Re Apes, 
slightly glaucous, not prickly on the back, sometimes slightly 
Spotted ; margin with close, spreading, white, deltoid teeth " in. 
long, turning purple.when old; peduncle simple, above a ~~ ong, 
with several deltoid empty bracts; raceme dense, a on ; 
pedicels ascending, 3-1 in. long; bracts oblong, reddish, ee 
long as the pedicels ; perianth cylindrical, reddish, 1} in. ey Pow 
very short ; stamens searcely exserted. Baker in Journ. im nn. Soc. 
xviii, 173. 4. soccotrina, DC. Plantes Grasses, t. 85 ; Sane 
75 ; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect, xxii. fig.1. A. soccotorina, Kunth, Enum. 
