Haworthia. | LILIACES (Baker). 349 
minute, deltoid ; perianth § in. long ; limb half as long as the tube. 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 211. Aloe venosa, Lam. Encye. i. 
89; Kunth, Enum. iv. 514. A. tricolor, Haw. in Trans. Linn. 
Soe. vii. 25. Apicra tricolor, Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. 
Mag. v. 271. H. distincta, N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1876, vi. 
130, fig. 30. (Aloe africana humilis, ete., Commel. Prelud. t. 29.) 
CentRat ReGion: Graaff Reinet Div., Bolus! 
First introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the eighteenth century. 
Re-introduced by Bolus in 1875. 
43. H. mirabilis (Haw, Syn. 95); leafy stem short; rosette 2 in. 
diam. ; leaves about 20, multifarious, deltoid, much recurved, 1-1} 
in. long, ? in. broad, 3-4 in. thick in the centre, firm in texture, 
flat on the much-recurved face, smooth, marked in the upper half 
with 3-5 pale vertical lines, rounded and seabrous with tubercles on 
the back, keeled towards the apex, turning red-brown when old, 
denticulate on the edges and keel ; pedunele slender, simple, about $ ft. 
long ; raceme lax, few-flowered ; lower pedicels }-} in. long ; bracts 
small, lanceolate-deltoid ; perianth $ in. long; limb half as long as 
the tube. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii, 212. Aloe mirabilis, 
Haw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 9; Bot. Mag. t. 1354 ; Salm-Dyck, 
Aloe, sect. ix. fig. 1; Kunth, Enum, iv. 508. Aptera mirabilis, 
Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. v. 269. Haworthia multifaria, 
Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1824, 300. 
Sours Arrica: without locality, living cultivated plants ! 
Introduced into cultivation by Masson in 1795. 
44. H. affinis (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 213); rosette 
about an inch Jong, 2-2} in. diam.; leaves about 20, multifarious, 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, an inch long, half an inch broad, } in. 
thick, dull green, flat on the face, rather recurved upwards, pellucid 
towards the tip with 1-2 short green vertical lines, not awned, 
rounded on the back and keeled upwards, denticulate on the edges ; 
peduncle simple, 6-9 in. Jong ; raceme laxly 4-6-flowered ; pedicels 
vs-+ in. long; bracts lanceolate ; perianth & in. long; limb nearly 
_ as long as the tube, 
Sovrn Arrica: without locality. . 
Described from a living plant sent to Kew in 1875, by Mr. McGibbon, of the 
Cape Botanic Garden, 
45. H. bilineata (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, xviii. 213); rosette 
of leaves about 13 in. long, 3 in. diam. ; leaves about 15, multi- 
farious, oblong-lanceolate, 14-2 in. long, 3 in. bruad, j in. thiek, dull 
green, flat on the face, pellucid in the upper third with 1-2 short 
vertical green lines, not awned, rounded on the back, keeled upwards, 
denticulate on the edges and keel; peduncle simple, 8-9 in. long ; 
raceme laxly 5-6-flowered ; pedicels ,4;— in. long ; bracts lanceolate ; 
perianth § in, long; segments keeled with red, nearly as long as the 
tube. 
