Aloe.} LILIACEZ (Baker). 327 
A, peeteeieon; Salm-Dyck, Cat. 31. Pachidendron pseudo-feroxr, Haw. 
Var. y, ineurvata (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 180) ; leaves thinner, 
remarkably incurved, not prickly on the face, 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, living cultivated plants! 
__ Introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the eighteenth centary. Var. 
‘meurvata, at present known only from young plants in Mr. Cooper’s collection, 
will probably prove a distinct species. . 
63. A. africana (Miller, Gard. Dict. edit. viii, No. 4); stem 
reaching a length of 20 ft. below the dense rosette of leaves ; leaves 
ensiform, 3-2 ft. long, 24-3 in. broad low down, 2-4 in. thick in 
the centre, tapering gradually from the base to the apex, very 
glaucous, scarcely at all recurved, without prickles on the face and 
with only a few towards the tip on the back; margin with copious, 
deltoid-cuspidate, brown, horny prickles 2 in. long; pedunele stout, 
simple, a foot long, with copious, vvate, empty bracts; raceme 
dense, a foot long ; pedicels very short ; bracts ovate, }-2 in. long ; 
perianth bright yellow tipped with green, much recurved, 1}-1} in. 
long ; tube cylindrical ; segments as long as the tube; stamens and 
_ Style conspicuously exserted. Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 21 ; 
Syn. 76; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 709 ; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, 
sect. xxvii. fig. 2; Kunth, Enum. iv. 532; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xviii. 180. A. africana var. angustior, Sims in Bot. Mag. 
t. 2517. A. Bolusii, Baker, l.c. 179. Pachidendron africanum, Haw. 
Revis. 36. 
Sovurm Arrica : without locality, living cultivated plants! 
Introduced into cultivation early in the eighteenth century. — 
64. A. supralevis (Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 22; Syn. 77) ; 
stem 5-6 ft. long in cultivation when mature below the dense rosette 
of leaves ; leaves ensiform, 14-2 ft. Jong, 23-3 in. broad low down, 
3-3 in. thick in the centre, tapering gradually from below the middle 
to the pungent apex, unspotted, glancous, with a few horny prickles 
on the face and upper part of the keel beneath; margin with close, 
deltoid-cuspidate, horny prickles 3-3 in. long; peduncle stout, 
branched ; racemes dense, 4-1 ft. long; pedicels very short ; bracts 
Ovate, acute, 4-2 in, long; perianth reddish, cylindrical, j-1 in. 
long ; tube as long as the segments; stamens and style much ex- 
serted. Roem. and Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 711 ; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, 
sect. xxvii. fig. 6 ; Kunth, Enum. iv. 533; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc, xviii. 180. Pachidendron supraleve, Haw. Revis. 39. 
Var. 8, Hanburii (Baker); leaves without any prickles on the upper surface ; 
Pedicels nearly obsolete ; flowers yellow. 
Soutn Arica: withoat locality, Var. 8, Hort. Hanbury ! 
Introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the eighteenth century. 
65. A, rupestris (Baker) ; leaves ensiform, recurved, sickle- 
shaped, glaucous, 1} ft. long, 2 in. broad low down, narrowed 
gradually to the point, not prickly on either surface ; marginal teeth 
small, deltoid, with brown horny tip; inflorescence much branched, 
