326 LILIACEZ (Baker). [Aloe. 
60. A. Bainesii (Dyer in Gard. Chron. 1874, i. 568, figs. 119-120) ; 
arborescent, with a trunk reaching a height of 50-60 ft, and a 
diameter of 4-5 ft.; diameter of leafy head 20 ft. or more; leaves 
ensiform, 2-3 ft. long in the young state, but much shorter in the 
mature plant, 13-2 in. broad low down, tapering gradually to the 
apex, green, unspotted, not prickly on the keel towards the tip; 
margin with distant, deltoid, horny prickles »,—} in. long; peduncle 
and rachis very stout and woody; racemes dense, oblong, 3-4 in. 
long ; pedicels stout, erecto-patent, 3-1 in. long; bracts minute, 
lanceolate ; perianth oblong, 12 in. long, } in. diam., salmon-pink 
fading into whitish, tipped with green; tube campanulate ; outer 
segments valvate; stamens and style much exserted. Baker in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 178; Bot. Mag. t. 6848. 
Var. 8, A. Barber (Dyer, loc. cit. fig. 122) ; leaf broader, with smaller and 
more distant prickles than in the type. A. Zeyheri, Hort. non Salm-Dyck. 
Eastern Recion: Natal, Baines! Var. 8, Griqualand East; Shawbury, 
Mrs. Barber ! MacOwan, 2528! Baur! 
Flowered in the Cape botanic garden in June, 1878, and again in 1884, 
61. A. falcata (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 181) ; habit 
of growth not known ; leaves lanceolate, much curved, 8-12 in. long, 
1}-1} in. broad low down, tapering gradually toa brown, horny apex, 
unspotted; margin with deltoid-cuspidate, brown, horny prickles 
3-3 in. long ; peduncle short, stout, bearing 3-6 branches ; racemes 
dense, 4-8 in. long; pedicels ascending, 3-3 in. long; bracts ovate- 
cuspidate, rather longer than’ the pedicels ; perianth cylindrical, an 
inch long ; tube cylindrical ; segments oblong, } in. long; stamens as 
long as the perianth ; style finally exserted + in. 
CentTrRaAL REGION: inia Div. ; i 
xan woop ne dk pia aan no ; near Kamos, Komseep, and Springbok 
Known to me from dried specimens only. 
62. A. ferox (Miller, Gard. Dict. edit. viii. No. 22); stem simple, 
reaching in cultivation a length of 10-15 ft. and a diameter of 4-6 
in. below the dense rosette of leaves; leaves 30-50, densely aggre- 
gated, lanceolate, 13-2 ft. long, 4~6 in. broad, 4-2 in. thick in the 
middle, very rigid in texture, dull in colour and very glaucous, 
pungent at the apex, furnished with copious prickles on both back | 
and face; margin with brown-tipped, deltoid-cuspidate prickles 
4-¢ in. long; peduncle stout, much branched ; racemes very dense, 
a foot or more long; pedicels very short; bracts ovate, acute, } in. 
long; perianth red, clavate,13 in. long; tube short ; stamens and 
style bright red, much exserted. Lam. Encyc. i. 87; DC. Plantes 
Grasses, t. 32; Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 21; Syn. 76; Sims in 
Bot. Mag. t. 1975 3 Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxvii. fig. 5; Gard. 
Chron. 1875, iii. 243, fig. 44. A. perfoliata, var. ferox, Ait. Hort. 
Kew. i. 467. A. muricata and A. horrida, Haw. in Trans, Linn. Soc. 
vil. 25 §& 27. Pachidendron Jerox, Haw, Revis. 38. 
Var. 8, A.subferox (Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 73) ; leaves less prickly on the face. 
