’ a dense simple raceme 6-8 in, long, longer t 
Aloe.] _ Litacez (Baker). 323 
thick in the middle, bright green, without spots or lines; margin 
with crowded deltoid prickles ,—} in, long, those of the upper half 
conspicuous, aseending; peduncle simple, a foot long, with many 
deltoid empty bracts ; raceme dense, simple, } ft. long ; lower pedicels 
1-1} in. long; bracts deltoid, half as long as the pedicels; perianth 
cylindrical, reddish-yellow, 1-11 in. long; tube very short; stamens 
finally slightly exserted. Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 7 09 ; 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 5380; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 176. 
A, Atherstonei, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 170. 
~ a ReEGion: Uitenhage Div. ; Stink Poort on stony hills, 1000 ft., Bolus, 
CENTRAL Recion: Somerset Div.; in woods at the foot of Bosch Berg, 3000 
ft., MacOwan, 1825! 
Introduced into cultivation by Bowie about 1820. 
51. A. speciosa (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, xviii. 178) ; habit of 
A. africana, reaching a height of 20-25 feet ; leaves in a dense rosette, 
15-18 in, long, 2 in. broad low down, ensiform, glaucous, with 
smaller and weaker prickles than in A. africana ; peduncle short, 
stout, simple ; raceme very dense, simple, a foot long, 4 in. diam. 
when expanded, all except the upper flowers deflexed; pedicels 3-; 
in. long; bracts suborbicular, obtuse, } in. long and broad ; perianth 
cylindrical, 1} in, long, rose-tinted in an early stage only, greyish- 
white when mature; tube scarcely any; stamens and style bright 
red, conspicuously exserted. 
Czyrrat Rearon : Somerset Div. ; precipices near Somerset East and at Hell 
Poort, near the Great Fish river, 2500 ft., MacOwan, 1922! 
52, A. longiflora (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1888, iv. 756) ; stem 
simple, 1} ft. long below the rosette of leaves; rosette spread Boy 
over the upper foot; leaves spreading, ensiform, 15-18 in. oe 
1} in. broad low down, tapering gradually to a long point, unspot L 
glossy green, flat on the face in the lower cnt oo. 
i —1 in, ; 
crowded, spreading, green, deltoid, ;—§ aie .: - lar ghy see 
" scari i i than 
ovate, scariose, } in, long; pedicels erecto-patent, not longer 
the bract; perianth cylindrical, primrose-yellow, i} in. ry : tube 
oblong, } in. long; segments ligulate, connivent, tipped with green ; 
style and stamens exserted } inch. 
Sours Arnica? without locality. pad 
Described from a plant that flowered in the Botanic Garden at Glasnevin in 
December, 1888, 
53. A: chloroleuca (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1877, viii. 38); 8 
reaching a length of Aaa feet in cultivation below < "4 
rosette of leaves, simple, 3-4 in. diam. ; leaves ensiform, 272 ft. 
long, 13-2 in. broad at the base, } in. thick in the middle, tapering 
gradually from the base to the recurved apex, slightly glaucous, 
unspotted ; margin with deltoid-cuspidate brown horny prickles 
