322 LILIACEZ (Baker). [ Aloe. 
iv. 524. A. perfoliata var. succotrina, Curt. in Bot. Mag. t. 472. 
A. vera, Miller, Gard. Dict. edit. viii. No. 15, non Linn, 
SovrH ArFrica: without locality, living cultivated plants ! 
Introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the eighteenth century. 
48. A. purpurascens (Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 20); stem 
2-3 ft. long below the dense rosette of leaves, simple or forked; 
leaves 40-60 in a dense rosette, ensiform, 14 ft. long, 2 in. broad at 
the base, 2 in. thick in the middle, very glaucous, often with a few 
scattered white spots, not striped, tapering gradually from the base to 
the apex, turning dark purple when old ; margin with deltoid white 
horny prickles 4-1 in. long ; peduncle stout, simple, 1} ft. long; 
raceme dense, simple, a foot long; pedicels erecto-patent, ¢ in. long; 
bracts oblong, purplish, shorter than the pedicels; perianth straight, 
cylindrical, reddish, 1-1} in. long; tube very short; stamens 
searcely exserted. Haw, Syn. 75; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxii. 
fig. 2; Kunth, Enum. iv. 524. A. sinuata, Thunb. Diss. No. 5, ex 
parte. A. perfoliata var. purpurascens, Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 466. A. 
socotrina var. purpurascens, Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 1474, A. ramosa, 
Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vii. 26. 
Souta Arica: without locality, living cultivate: plants! 
Introduced into cultivation about 1780. Scarcely more than a variety of 
A, succotrina. : 
49. A. arborescens (Miller, Gard. Dict. edit. viii. No. 3); stem 
slender, reaching a length of many feet below the dense rosette of 
leaves ; leaves ensiform, very glaucous, 13-2 ft. long, 2 in, broad, 
acuminate, neither spotted nor striped, }—} in. thick in the centre, 
margined with close deltoid-cuspidate prickles 1—1 in. long; peduncle 
stout, simple or forked, above a foot long; racemes dense, 3-1 ft. 
long ; pedicels about an inch long; bracts ovate or oblong, shorter 
than the pedicels; perianth bright red, cylindrical, 11-13 in. long; 
tube very short; stamens about as long as the perianth. DO. Plantes 
Grasses, t. 38; Haw. Syn. 76; Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 1306; Andr. 
Bot. Rep t. 468; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 708 ; Salm- 
Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxvi. fig. 3; Kunth, Enum. iv. 529; Baker in 
Journ. Linn. Soc, xviii. 175. A. perfoliata var. arborescens, Ait. 
Hort, Kew. i. 466. A. fruticosa, Lam. Encyc. i. 87. A. arborea, 
Medic, Beobacht, 8305. Catevala arborescens, Medic. Theod. 67. 
Var. 8, A. frutescens (Salm-Dyck, Cat. 30); stems more slender; leaves 
smaller (10-15 in. long, 1~14 in. broad dense. : 
Suppl. 46; Kunth, Enum. iv. 530. a eererernt see ere 
Souru Arrica: without locality, living cultivated plants! 
Introduced into cultivation about the year 1700. 
50. A. pluridens (Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1824, 299); stem simple, 
reaching a length of 10-12 ft. below the dense rosette of leaves and 
a diameter in cultivation of 4-6 inches; leaves 30-40 in a rosette, 
ensiform, very acuminate, 14-2 ft. long, 14-2 in. broad, 4-} im. 
