Aloe.} LILTACEZ (Baker). 329 
perianth cylindrical, reddish-yellow, 13-1? in. long; inner segments 
nearly free; outer united to the middle ; stamens as long as the 
perianth. Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 457; DC. Plantes Grasses, t. 75; 
Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. t. 423; Haw. Syn. 74; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, 
sect. xxviii. fig. 1. A. disticha, var. plicatilis, Linn. Sp. Plant. edit. 
1, i. 321. Kumara disticha, Medic. Theod, 70, t. 4. A. tripetala, 
Medic. Beobacht. 55. Rhipidodendron distichum, Willd. in Ges. 
Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. v. 165. R. plicatile, Haw. Revis. 45. 
Var. 8, major (Salm-Dyck) ; more robust, with leaves a foot or more long, 
above 2 in. broad, and stouter branches and peduncles, 
Coast Rreton: On rocks behind Tulbagh Waterfall, MacOwan, 2259! and 
op conte of New Kloof, near Tulbagh, 850 ft., MacOwan, Herd. Aust. 
¥; ! 
Introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the eighteenth century. 
69. A. desmetiana (Hort.); leaves about 40 in a dense rosette, 
lanceolate, 4-5 in. broad, 11 in, broad low down, narrowed gradually 
to the point, rounded on the back and furnished with copious oblong 
greenish-white tubercles, which are less numerous on the face, which 
1s flat in the lower half; marginal teeth close, white, very minute ; 
inflorescence a simple lax raceme a foot long; pedicels erecto-patent, 
¢-1 in. long; bracts lanceolate-deltoid, as long as the pedicels ; 
perianth cylindrical, 1} in. long; tube scarcely any; stamens not 
exserted. ; 
A garden hybrid between A, variegata and A. echinata minor, Described from 
8 plant flowered by Mr. J. Corderoy in April, 1891. 
70. A. insignis (N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1885, xxiv. 40, 
fig. 8) ; shortly caulescent ; leaves '30-40 in a dense rosette, ascending, 
lauceolate, 7~11 in, long, 1-14 in. broad low down, glaucous, flat on 
the face with a few raised whitish tubercles, which are more numerous 
on the rounded back; marginal teeth deltoid, minute; peduncle 
simple, longer than the leaves; raceme moderately dense, a foot 
long ; pedicels 3-1 in, long; bracts ovate, as long as the pedicels ; 
Perianth cylindrical, 13 in. long, bright red in an early stage; tube 
Scarcely any; stamens exserted. 
A garden hybrid between A. echinata and A. drepanophylla, raised by Mr, T. 
Cooper in 1875, It flowered for the first time in 1885. 
IX. APICRA, Willd. 
Perianth oblong-cylindrical, with a straight tube and 6 short 
oblong subequal segments, spreading at the tip, with 3 green stripes 
down the keel. Stamens 6, hypogynous, shorter than the perianth ; 
filaments filiform; anthers oblong, small, versatile, dehiscing in- 
trorsely. Ovary sessile, oblong-trigonous ; ovules numerous, super- 
posed ; style short, subulate; stigma capitate. Capsule oblong-trigo- 
Nous, coriaceous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds compressed ; testa 
brown ; albumen fleshy. 
