31 Albany Museum Records. 



are not found under natural conditions, some of which will be 

 referred to later on. Some species may have even changed to such 

 an extent that they can scarcely be recognised in the wild state. 



On the other hand a large number of species have retained their 

 most important characters remarkably well (a fact which is worthy 

 of attention), and when one makes a little allowance for results 

 which cultivation in pots usually produces, there is frequently no 

 difficulty in identifying wild specimens from published descrip- 

 tions and figures.^ 



3 {?>Oh)^—Aloe Cooppri, Bak. This species is known from the 

 Coast Region and Eastern Region of South Africa, but also occurs 

 in the Transvaal near Johannesburg (Mrs. C. Hutton, no. 304, Ap. 

 96, in Herb. Albany Museum). 



4 (30G). — .4. micracantha, Haw. var. Flowered in Botanical 

 Gardens, Grahamstown, in Nov., 11H)1. The origin of the plants 

 in the Botanical Gardens is unknown, but the late Mr. Russell 

 Hallack told Mr, E. Tidmarsh that it grows on Botha's Hill, near 

 Port Elizabeth, and Mr, Tidmarsh is under the impression that it 

 grows south of Grahamstown. Its stem is about 1 foot high. Its 

 leaves are slightly broader and the marginal teeth somewhat larger 

 and more numerous than in the type. The white spots on the 

 leaves are raised as correctly stated by Salm-Dyck. 



5 (30G)' — A. Kraussii\BaJc. Apart from Wood's figure ("Natal 

 plants," III, plate 292) the type of this species is not known to me, 

 but we have E. E. Galpin, no. 873, which is placed with it in the 

 Elora Capensis. In the flowers of Galpin's plant in Herl). Alb. 

 Mus., represented by two specimens, the perianth is decidedly 

 curved, and altogether it seems to me to be referrable to A. myri- 

 acantha, Roem. et Schult., from which it only differs by its 

 smaller size. The perianth is white, striped with green (Galpin 

 in litt,), whereas Wood describes it in his plant as pale yellow 

 with brownish tips. Mr. Galpin also thinks that his no. 973 is 

 quite distinct from A . Kraussri. 



' This applies especially to tbe figures in Salm-Dj-ck, "Monographia gene- 



nim Aloes et Mesewbriunthemi ,'" Bonnae 1836-1863. 



The figures in earlier vohniies of the "Botanical Magazine," and in De 



Caudolle's "Plantes Grasses," must, however, as a rule be used with 



great caution 

 * The numbers before each species refer to the Flora Capensis. Thus 3 (30j) 



means the 3rd species ou p. 305 of Vol. "VI. 



