^. 
8 torulos 
Additamenta quedam. . Apiera. 
TURGOSEA, supra, p. 14. 
This species has lowered again. . Its thyrsiferous 
seapes are now 9 inches high, each with nearly 
40 decussating, gradually lessening upward, 
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pertusa. : 
l 
erect-ineurving, foliaceous bractes ; thetenth or —— 
eleventh pair of which bear solitary shortly pe- 
dicelled flowers in their axillze ; the twelfth and 
higher pairs from two to six flowers each ; with 
their pedicelli often elevated on a common pe- 
duncle one line in length supported by two fo- 
liaceous bractes longer rather than the pedun-. 
cle.—'T'he superior flowers of the graceful, re- . 
versely-villose, spike-shaped thyrsus are higher 
than their main bractes, which gradually lessen 
to nothing. "The bloom (in the day time only) 
has the sweet fragrance of the Hawthorn's blos- 
som, with something more approaching to the 
. Heliotrope;—the leaves and bractes are often 
deeply embued with red, enhancing the beauty 
- of the small snowy recurving petals, and reflect- 
ing over tliem, in peculiar lights, a very soft ro- 
saceous shade. 'The ordinary squamula is rhom- 
bically obcordate : the germs are green, pressed 
to each other and flattened within, but exter- 
nally gibbous, and nearly the shape of a raisin 
stone, having very short blunt continuous styles, 
and without any apparent stigma, even through 
'à common pocket lens. 
APICRA. JZilld. et Nob. in Supp. succ. 61. 
olete maculatis: perigonii angulis 
spongiose torulosi 
Non Nob. &c. 
a; A.(spongy-flowered pentagonal) fo- penta- 
liis subquinquefariis pallide viridibus glabris ; gona. 
l. 
* 
is. 
Aloe pentagona. Salm. cat. rais, d'aloé, p. 10.— 
