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A. mortolensis. 
Is a hybrid between A. variegata and Gasteria acinacifolia. 
It is probably one of the hybrids raised by M. le Chanoine 
Béguin, in Brignoles. 
A. Peglere. 
Was received from Prof. Schoenland, of Grahamstown, in 1905, 
and recently again from Kew. 
A. pendens. 
This was received July, 1898, from the Royal Botanic Garden 
at Berlin, where it was introduced through Prof. Schweinfurth. 
It flowered for the first time in March, 1902, and was figured in 
Bot. Mag. t. 7837. 
A, percrassa. 
Of this we only possess the variety with large bracts (var. 
saganeitiana Berger). 
A. Perryi. 
This is the plant yielding the Socotrine aloe.* Seeds of it 
were received through Prof. R. von Wettstein, of Vienna, in Feb- 
ruary, 1901, but the plant perished during the winter of 1910-11. 
A, plicatilis. 
Was first procured by Mr. Daniel Hanbury from Mr. Thomas 
Cooper in July, 1868, and again in October, 1871. It forms little 
trees or bushes and grows but slowly. 
A. pratensis. 
Was bought in July, 1888, from Prince Troubetzkoy’s garden 
at Borghetto, and came from Basutoland.t We have only this 
single rosette, which flowers annually without producing seeds or 
offsets. 
A. rubrolutea. 
Next to A. dichotoma the largest species in South Western 
Africa, was recently introduced, having been: collected by Mr. 
Kurt Dinter, in German South West Africa, and by Mr. H. 
Baum, of Rostock, on the Cunene River. It flowered first at La 
Mortola in November, 1907, and was figured in Bot. Mag. t. 8263. 
The flowers resemble very closely those of A. percrassa, which is, 
however, a stemless plant. A. rwbrolutea is perhaps not different 
from A. litoralis Bak. 
A. rubroviolacea. 
One of Prof. Schweinfurth’s numerous introductions, was 
received from the Berlin Botanic Garden in July, 1898, and 
flowered for the first time in April, 1900. The plant was figured 
in Bot. Mag. 1903, t. 7882. From the seeds came a number of 
hybrids with very fine flowers. 
* Fliickiger & Hanbury, Pharmacographia, p. 622; second edition, p. 684. 
+ This is the plant mentioned by Prof. J. G. Baker in Fl. Cap. vi. 38. 
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