Aloe. 295 



59. (325). — A. dichotoma., Linn. fil. was collected at Kamma- 

 pus (3rd altitude) by Zeyher. Unfortunataly our specimen is 

 without a number. It was gathered in May with flower-buds. 



61. (326). — 4. /a^crtto, Bak., is now represented in Herb. Alb. 

 Mus. by Zeyher's No. 1678, on which the species was founded. It 

 shows that, as I thought, it is quite distinct from 



A. Schlechteri, Schonl. (Rec. Alb. Mus. p. 45), which may 

 have to be made the type of a new genus when living material is 

 available. Besides the locality named in the original description, 

 it occurs in the neighbourhood of Douglas, Griqualand West, 

 whence it was sent by Miss K. Orpen to the Cape Government 

 Herbarium. 



Postscript. — The paper on the genns Aloe recently published 

 by Mr. A. Berger in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. has not reached me yet, 

 but the following extracts from a letter received from him on 

 March 30th will be of interest in connection with the foregoing 

 notes and my first paper on the same subject : " After a renewed 

 careful comparison of Wood's photograph of A. natalensis, I think 

 I can say for certain that it represents the old A. arborescetis " 



"At present we have here in flower A./erox^nd A.supralcevis. 

 I am of your opinion that they are only varieties of the same 

 species, but there are not only two, but a whole series of varieties." 

 " There are here also hybrids between them and\4. Salm-Dyckiana^ 

 One was received from the Transvaal, another seems to have arisen 

 here. The latter was described and figured by De Wildemann in 

 the Ic. Select! Horti Thenensis as A. Thraskii " " Altogether the 

 various species of Aloe hybridise here so easily that it is impossible 

 to breed them true from seeds. The Saponarice are the worst. 

 Each seed-bed of our nurserymen furnishes ' new ' species. 

 How do they behave in this respect in their native home ? " 



