370 HORTUS MORTOLENSIS 
A, Salmdyckiana. 
Prince Salm-Dyck states that he first believed this species to 
be A. africana,* under which name he saw it in the Imperial 
Garden, at Schoenbrunn, in 1815. This name is still much in use 
for it, and was found attached, in 1897, to plants probably bought 
by Mr. Daniel Hanbury in April, 1872, from M. Pfersdorff, in Paris. 
It is one of the finest arborescent species, with fiery red, long 
flower spikes. Our tallest specimen is about 2°50 m. high, and 
composed of five big stems, each 50 cm. in circumference; at 
their bases hundreds of smaller rosettes have formed. 
The variety fulgens is distinguished by more channelled leaves 
and even more robust stems. Our tallest specimen is 3:00 m. high. 
A. spuria. 
Is a plant of unknown origin, which I found in the garden as 
A. commutata. It has very long flowers, and may be a hybrid. 
A. striata (A. Hanburyana). 
The seeds of this were received from Prof. MacOwan in April, 
1873, and entered as :—‘‘ Aloé, dwarf species, leaves rosulate, 
thick, red margined, flower stem 2 feet high, flowers scarlet, very 
handsome. Mr. MacOwan wishes to be told if this sueceeds”’ (D. H.). 
Later on Mr. Daniel Hanbury added a note :—‘Aloé albo- 
cincta’”’ (a synonym of A. striata). 
A small plant was given by Mr. Daniel Hanbury to Prof. Charles 
Naudin,+ who believed it to be a new species, and described it as 
A. Hanburyana, a name which unfortunately cannot stand. 
A. Steudnerr. 
Was collected in Eritrea by Prof. Penzig and Prof. Schwein- 
furth, and presented by the former to the garden in 1901 as an 
unnamed species. It first flowered in 1911, and could be identified 
as this rare and, so far, insufficiently known species. 
A. Straussit.} 
This new species was received in 1910, from the Royal Botanic 
* Aloé africana Mill. is a rare plant in gardens. I saw it in flower in 
the Public Gardens of Monaco in November, 1911. There is a good figure of 
it in Bot. Mag. t. 2517. 
+ Then at Collioure in the Department of the Eastern Pyrenees. 
+ A. Straussii Berger, n. sp.—Rosula acaulis, cire. 15-foliata, 40 em. lata 
et 22cm. alta. Folia patentia leviter in- vel recurvula, 18-20 cm. longa et 55- 
62 mm. lata, 8 mm. crassa, carnosa, mollia, lanceolato-deltoidea apice contracto- 
acuminatis, supra paullum canaliculata obscure viridia vel viridi-brunnea macu- 
lisque sepe geminatis oblongis irregulariter transverse fasciata, subtus magis 
maculata et obscure striata basin versus fere albida, ad margines linea cartilaginea 
tenui cincta aculeisque deltoideis gracilibus acutis sed haud pungentibus 2-4 mm. 
longis pallidis vel rubellis dentata. Pedunculus simplex (semper?) 45 cm. altus 
nudus brunneus, racemo brevi laxo 18-20-floro; bracteew anguste deltoides 
cuspidate, 15 mm. longer; pedicelli erecto patentes rubelli 3cm. longi. Perian- 
thium 32 mm. longum basi inflatum supra ovarium constrictum hinc paullum 
decurvatum et inflatum segmentis brevibus ovato-deltoideis recurvulis luteolis 
faucem rotundam formantibus; anthers breviter exsertez. 
Affinis A. lateritie, sed differt floribus pallidioribus minus curvatis et circa 
ovarium et faucem versus minus ampliatis, foliisque minus carnosis apice 
contracto-acuminatis dentibusque cartilagineis crebrioribus. 
