Aloe.} LILIACEZ (Baker). 325 
57. A. salmdyckiana (Schultes fil. in Roem. et Schultes, Syst. 
Veg. vii. 710); stem reaching a length of 10-12 ft. below the 
dense rosette of leaves ; leaves 30-40 in a rosette, ensiform, 12-2 ft. 
long, 3 in. broad low down, }-} in. thick in the centre, narrowed 
gradually from the base to the apex, dull green, hardly at all glaucous 
when mature, neither spotted nor striped, slightly prickly on the 
keel towards the apex, not prickly on the face; margin with 
deltoid-cuspidate, brown, horny prickles 11 in. long; peduncle 
simple, above a foot long; raceme dense, simple, a foot long; 
pedicels 1-11 in. long, cernuous; bracts oblong, shorter than the 
pedicels; perianth bright red, eylindrical, 11-11 in. long; tube 
short, campanulate; stamens exserted 41-1 in. Salm-Dyck, Aloe, 
sect. xxvii. fig. 1; Kunth, Enum. iv. 530; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xviii. 177. A. africana, Salm-Dyck, Cat. 31, non Miller. 
Pachidendron Principis, Haw. Revis, 37. 
Sovurn Arrica: without locality. 
Originally described from the Vienna collections in 1815. 
58. A. nitens (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 170); stem 
simple, elongated below the dense rosette of leaves ; leaves ensiform, 
18-20 in. long, 2 in. broad low down, bright green, neither spotted 
nor striped, j-} in, thick in the middle; margin with brown, 
horny, deltoid-cuspidate prickles } in. long; flowers unknown. 
Sour Arrica: without locality. 
Sent alive to the Kew collection by Sir H. Barkly in 1878. 
59. A. dichotoma (Linn. fil. Suppl. 206); arborescent, with a 
very much branched trunk 20-30 ft, long, 3-4 ft. diam. ; leaves ina 
dense rosette at the tip of the branches, lanceolate, 6-8 in. long, 
1-1} in. broad low down, }-3 in. thick in the centre, very glaucous, 
unspotted, nearly flat on the face, rounded on back, sometimes 
smooth, sometimes studded over with copious minute prickles ; 
margin with small, white, deltoid teeth; peduncle short, stout, 
branched ; racemes lax, 3-6 in. long, with a stout, suleate rachis ; 
pedicels ascending, 1~2 in. long; bracts minute, lanceolate ; perianth 
oblong, bright yellow, about an inch long; tube much shorter than 
the segments, the three outer of which are valvate in bud ; style and 
stamens distinctly exserted. Thunb. Diss. No.1; Fl. Cap. edit. ii. 
309 ; Paterson, Travels, tt. 2-5 ; Haw. Syn. 75; Kunth, Enum. iv. 
534; J. C. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1873, 712, fig. 137; Dyer in 
Gard. Chron. 1874, i. 567, figs. 118, 121; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soe. xviii. 178. Rhipidodendron dichotomum, Willd. in Ges. 
Naturf. Fr, Berl. Mag. v. 166. igre 
Ww : aqualand, Schinz, 1! Little Namaqualand; 
near Ookiep, gn hing oo nccerg, ein & and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 800! 
Modder Fontein, Whitehead! Bockland, Thunberg/ and without precise 
locality, Barkly / ; 
Re-introduced into English gardens by Sir H. Barkly in 1877. Flowered in 
Cape botanic garden in 1878. 
