: 
Haworthia.) LILIACEZ (Baker). 341 
325; Aloe, sect. vi. fig. 14; Kunth, Enum. iv. 505. H. JSasciata 
var. major, Haw. Revis. 54. - 
Sour A¥gica: without locality, living cultivated plants ! 
First seen in the Vienna collections in 1814. H. argyrostigma, Hort. Paris, has 
narrower leaves than in the type, and smaller, more crowded tubercles. 
19. H. margaritifera (Haw. Suppl. 55) ; leafy stem short ; rosette 
of leaves 3-4 in. diam. ; leaves 30-40 in a dense multifarious rosette, 
lanceolate-deltoid, 24-3 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, 3~2 in. thick, green, 
flat on the face, rounded on the back and keeled towards the tip, 
furnished on both sides with copious scattered large white tubercles ; 
peduncle branched, a foot or more long; racemes + ft. long, denser 
than in most of the other species; pedicels very short; bracts small, 
ovate; perianth § in. long; limb half as long as the tube. Baker in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 204. Aloe pumila var. margaritifera, Linn. Sp. 
Plant. edit. i. 8322. A. margaritifera, Miller, Gard. Dict. edit, vili. 
Wo. 14; Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 468 ; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. vi. fig. 5; 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 502. H. major, Duval, Pl. Suce. Hort. Aleng. 7 ; 
Haw. Syn. 92. 
Var. 6, H. erecta (Haw. Revis. 55); leaves rather smaller ; tubercles more 
crowded and rather smaller. Aloe africana margaritifera minor, Dill. Hort, 
ith. t. 16, fig. 17. Aloe erecta, Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. vi. fig. 7. H. minor, 
Duval, Pl. Succ. Hort. Aleng. 7. 4 
Var. y, H. granata (Haw. Suppl. 57); much smaller; leaves more deltoid, 
1}-2 in. long, with tubercles much smaller and more crowded. Aloe africana 
margaritifera minima, Dill. Hort. Elth.t. 16, fig. 18. A. granata, Salm-Dyck, 
Aloe, sect. vi. fig. 6. Apicra granata, Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Fr, Berl. Mag. 
v. 269, Aloe magaritifera car, minima, Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1360. H. brevis, 
aye = =e aritifera (Haw. Suppl. 53); leaves the same size and shape 
AR. 8, 4 3 
as in the federscnor keeled on the Bit faintly on the face, the tubercles on 
~~ ana sewet than in the type, and ae os almost restricted to the keel. 
es t - 0e, & vi. jig. 1. 
Var. oe mca ee Peacock.) ; leaves 2} in. long, scabrous and sparsely 
tubercled on the face, those of the back middle-sized and aggregated into irregular 
transverse bands, : 
Sourn Arnica : without locality, living cultivated plants ! 
Coast Rea@ion: Worcester Div. ; Stony Karoo around Ashton, 800 ft., Mac- 
Owan, Herb, Aust. Afr., 1557! ee ae 
Introduced into cultivation early in the eighteenth century. Mr. ' 
Cooper, in his peta 4 at Reigate, has raised from the seeds of H. — — = 
sembling closely H. papillosa, fasciata, subulata, and rugosa. — on , 
gered in a paper by Mr. N. E. Brown, in Gard, Chron. 1878, ix. p. =, fe 
140 to 145, and a good series of dried specimens of them is in 
Herbarium. — ge 
20. H. semiglabrata (Haw. Suppl. 55) ; leafy stem short; rose 
of leaves erie diam. ; leaves 30-40, crowded, nogoeneee —— 
ing, lanceolate-deltoid, acuminate, 3-3} in. long, 3-1 in. es 
t-} in. thick, bright green, flat and almost without tubercles on the 
face, rounded on the back and keeled towards the apex, with ca 
middle-sized white tubercles in very irregular — ited 3 : “f 
developed in the central half of the leaf; peduncle brane oa Ba 
long including inflorescence ; racemes moderately dense, about } ft, 
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