Apicra. | LILIACEZ (Baker). 331 
Coast Recion: Albany Div., Hutton! 
Introduced into cultivation in 1872. Described from living plants in the Kew 
collection. 
A near ally’of A. deltoidea. 
3. A. deltoidea (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 217); leafy 
stem 3-1 ft. long, 2in. diam., leaves included ; leaves arranged in 
five regular rows, all except the uppermost spreading, deltoid, 
<1 in. long, 4-} in. thick in the middle, bright shining green, 
slightly concave on the face, except in the oldest leaves, rounded on 
the back, distinctly keeled towards the apex, serrulate on the keel 
and edges, entirely without spots or tubercles; peduncle 1: ft. long 
including inflorescence ; racemes 1-4; pedicels very short ; bracts 
lanceolate-deltoid ; perianth 1 in. long, smooth. Aloe (Apiera) 
deltoidea, Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag. t. 6071. 
Coast Raion : Alexandria Div.; Zuurberg Range, stony places at Hell Poort, 
2000 ft., Bolus, 2687 ! 
Described from living cultivated plants introduced by Cooper about 1860. 
4. A. spiralis (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 217) ; leafy stem 
2-1 ft. long, 13-13 in. diam., leaves included; leaves multifarious, 
lanceolate-deltcid, 1-11 in. long, 4-3 in. broad, bright shining green, 
smooth, flat on the face, rounded on the back, obscurely crenulate on 
the margin, all except the lowest ascending; peduncle 14 ft. long 
including inflorescence, simple or branched ; racemes 3 ft. long; 
pedicels very short ; bracts small, ovate-lanceolate ; perianth rugose, 
# in. long: Aloe spiralis, Linn. Sp. Plant. 322; DC. Plantes 
Grasses, t. 56; Jacq. Fragm. t. 110; Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1455. 
Aloe imbricata, Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vii. 7 ; Salm- Dyck, Aloe, 
sect. i. fig. 1. Haworthia imbricata, Haw. Syn. 98. Apicra imbri- 
cata, Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. v. 273. 
Sovurn Arrica: without locality, living cultivated plants! ‘ 
In i ivation at the beginning of the eighteenth century. It is 
teu both by Commelyn, Protudea, 33, os Dillenius, Hortus Elthamensis, 
+ 13, fig. 14. 
5. A. foliolosa (Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. v. 274) ; 
leafy stem 4-1 ft. long, 1-1} in. diam. including leaves ; leaves 
crowded, multifarious, deltoid, squarrose, 4—$ in. long and broad, 
3-1 in. thick in the centre, dull green, flat on the face, rugose on the 
margin, obliquely keeled on the back, without spots or tubercles ; 
- peduncle slender, simple, above a foot long; raceme lax, 6-9 in. long ; 
lower pedicels 1-} in. long ; bracts small, ovate-lanceolate ; perianth 
smooth, 1 in. long, Haw. Suppl. 64; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Xviii, 218. Haworthia foliolosa, Haw. Syn. 99. Aloe foliolosa, 
Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc, vii. 7 ; Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1352; Salm- 
Dyck, Aloe, sect. ii. fig. 4; Kunth, Enum. iv. 495. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality. 
Introduced into cultivation by Masson about 1795. 
