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Garden, Dahlem, through Mr. H. Strauss. It was collected by 
the late Mr. Walter Gotze in German Hast Africa in 1899. It 
has proved quite hardy at La Mortola. 
A. striatula. 
The history of this species is rather complicated. It was first 
introduced at Kew by Bowie in 1823, and described as A. striatula 
by Haworth in 1825. Of this plant two beautiful watercolour 
drawings were made which are in the Royal Herbarium at Kew. 
It had previously been collected by Burchell in 1813. Later 
on Prof. MacOwan collected the same plant in woods of the 
Boschberg, and sent dried specimens to Kew and living specimens 
to La Mortola. The dried material was described as a new species 
in 1880 (A. Macowaniz), and the living plant at La Mortola, in 
1892, as A. awrantiaca. 
Dr. Otto Kuntze collected near Hast London, and named 
A. cascadensis, what is most likely the same plant, which has 
thus received four names. 
Our plants agree exactly with the watercolour drawings of 
Haworth’s type. 
A, succotrina. 
This plant became known to science at the beginning of the 
seventeenth century, and got introduced into most botanical 
gardens. Its native habitat was forgotten for nearly two hundred 
years, and amongst other localities even Socotra was credited 
with being its home until the mystery was solved a few years ago 
by Dr. R. Marloth’s rediscovery of the species in a hidden glen of 
the Table Mountain.” 
Most pharmaceutical text-books erroneously mention A. swcco- 
trina as the chief supplier of the drug ‘‘Cape Aloe,” but it is chiefly 
the following species and A. ferox which supply this commodity. 
A. supralevis. 
A native of Southern and South Hastern Cape Colony, is very 
similar to the Natal A. ferow, but its flowers are always disposed in 
dense cylindrical spikes, and are not bent to one side only, as in 
A. ferox. No doubt it was grown here from seeds sent by Prof. 
MacOwan. 
A, vera. 
This was at one time much cultivated in Barbados} for the 
production of the drug. Though found in the Mediterranean 
region it is probably not a native there, but was most likely 
introduced from the Canaries and Cape Verd Islands. On the 
Riviera it is not quite hardy, and is liable to suffer in the cold 
nights of late autumn and winter. 
* R. Marloth, ‘‘Notes on Ale succotrina Lam.” in Trans. South African 
Philos. Soc, vol. xvi. part 3 (August, 1906), pp. 213-215. ‘ 
t+ Wm. G. Freemann, ‘‘ The Aloe Industry of Barbados,’’ in West Indian 
Bulletin, iii. (1902), pp. 178-188. 
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