328 LILtscEz (Baker). [ Aloe. 
candelabriform ; racemes dense, 6-8 in. long, above 2 in. diam. ; 
pedicels very short; bracts very small; perianth redcish-yellow, 
slightly recurved, $ in. long; tube scarcely any ; segments linear- 
oblong, with a distinct green keel ; stamens nearly twice as long as 
the perianth. A. pyenantha, MacOwan herb. 
Western ReGion: Little Namaqualand, in rocky ground between Port 
Nolloth and Spektakel, MacOwan, Herb. Austr. Afr., 1556. 
66. A. Thraskii (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, xviii, 180); stem 
simple in the cultivated plant below the dense rosette of leaves, 
3-4 in. diam., very tuberous at the base ; leaves ensiform, 2 ft. long, 
23-3 in. broad low down, }-} in. thick in the centre, slightly 
glaucous, unspotted, much recurved, channelled down the face all 
the way to the base; margin with small brown-tipped, deltoid- 
cuspidate prickles ; peduncle stout, simple, about a foot long; raceme 
dense, 4—6 in. long; pedicels very short ; bracts ovate, acute, }—} in. 
long; perianth yellow, slightly recurved, an inch long; tube very 
short ; segments obtuse ; stamens and style much exserted. 
Katanari Reaton : Orange Free State, Cooper / : 
Described from a living plant introduced into cultivation by Cooper about 1860. 
It is mentioned by name in Gard, Chron. 1876, v. 400, and is the central smooth- 
leaved Aloe in a figure of a group of species made from Mr. J. Peacock’s 
collection (t. 75), ‘ es 
67. A vsriegata (Linn. Sp. Plant. 321); rosette of leaves ses- 
sile, spiraily trifarious, 6-9 in. long, 4—5 in. diam. ; leaves 6-8 in a 
row, dense, erecto-patent, lanceolate-navicular, 4-5 in. long, an inch 
broad, concave on the face, acutely keeled, bright green, with irregu- 
lar cross bands of confluent oblong whitish spots; margins whitish, 
horny and denticulate ; peduncle simple, terete, 6-8 in. long, with 
2-3 empty bracts ; raceme lax, simple, oblong, 3-4 in. long ; pedicels 
erecto-patent, reddish, }-3 in. long ; bracts lanceolate-deltoid, as long 
as the pedicels; perianth cylindrical, reddish, 1 in. long ; tube 
elongated ; segments oblong, }-} in. long; stamens just exserted. 
Miller, Gard. Dict. edit. viii. No.9; Thunh. Diss. No. 12; Bot. Mag. 
t. 513; DC. Plantes Grasses, t. 21; Haw. Syn. 81; Salm-Dyck, 
Aloe, sect, xx. fig. 2; Kunth, Enum. iv. 523; Baker in Journ. Lann. 
Soe. xviii. 179, A. punetata, Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 26. 
Sourn Argica: without locality. A note in Burchell’s MS. catalogue at 
Kew, under No, 2239/2, states that this epecies grows plentifully on the Pellat 
Plains, near Kuruman, in Bechuanaland, but he did not dry any specimens. 
Antroduced into cultivation at the inning of the eighteenth century. 
Figured by Commelyn in his Preludia, ‘Ss ee te 
68. A. plicatilis (Miller, Gard. Dict. edit. viii. No. 7); stem 
shrubby, very much branched, reaching even in cultivation a height 
of 10-12 ft. and a thickness of a foot; leaves 10-30, distichous, 
ligulate, obtuse, 6-9 in. long, 14-14 in. broad, spreading, very 
glaucous, unspotted, with narrow whitish margin denticulate 
towards the tip; peduncle’ simple, about a foot long; raceme 
20-30-flowered, } ft. long ; pédicels 4-2 in, long; bracts small, deltoid ; 
