226 



vii. p. 358; Kunth, Eaum. Ph voL v. p. 19; Baker in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. voL xiv. p, 549. Aletris Zeylanica^ yar. B, Lam. 

 Encjcl. vol. i. p. 79. Salmia ehvacteatay CavanilL Ic. vol. iii- 

 p. 24, under 5. spicata. Katu Kapel sen Cadenaco, Rhede Hort. 



-Malabar, vol. xi, p, 83, t. 42. 



India. Malabar, in sandy places, Rhede, 



Unknown to me. Described from Rhede's f 

 lion. It appears to be similar to S, z'eylanica, Willd., but if the 

 statement that tlie grooves on tlie leaves are woolly is correct, 

 tlien it is perfectly distinct from all known species in tlie genus ; 

 but no indication of any woolliness is represented in tlie figure, 

 and I very mucli doubt the accuracy of tbe statement. I suspect 

 tliat this is the plant which Roxburgh has chiefly described in 

 his PL of the Coast of Coromandel, vol. ii. p. 43, and in Fl. 

 Ind. vol. ii. p. 161, as S. zeylanica, but it is certainly not the 

 phmt he has figured under that name, for which see 5. Rox- 

 hurgJiiana. 



26. S. Volkensii, GurJce in Engl. Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afr. C. 

 144. StemlesSy with a creeping rootstock. Leaves semiterete, 

 channelled on the face', rounded on the back, rigid, gradually 

 tapering to a sharply pointed apex; green, sometimes marked 

 with transverse bands formed of whitish spots. Floiver-stem 

 shorter than or as lonjj as the leaves. Flowers white. — Baker in 



H 



Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 334. 



German East Africa. Kilimanjaro; at Rombo, 

 Crater-edge of Lake Chala Volcano, 3T00 ft., VoUcens^ 1TT9. 



2T. S. zeylanica, Willd. Sp. PI. vol. li. p. 159, excluding all 



synonyms not quoted here (Fig. 12 c). — Stemless, with a creeping 

 rootstock \ in. thick. Leaves of adult plants 5-11 to a growth, 

 erect at the lower part and slightly recurving above, nearly 

 smooth, slightly shining, \\-2\ ft, long, 4-10 lin. broad, 2|~4 

 liu. thick, measured from the bottom of the channel to the back; 

 linear-semlterete, concave-channelled down the face, very 

 rounded on the back, gradually tapering from the base to a very 

 acute soft subulate green point \-\\ in. long, which withers to 

 whitish, very dark green, transversely banded throughout with 

 rather lighter green, and with 4-7 darker green longitudinal 

 lines on the back, which on withered leaves become ^slight 

 furrows ; margins green. Flowers not seen. — Willd., Enum. 



PI. Hort, Berol, p. 375? (this may have been S. aethiopica); 

 Haw. Synop. PL Succ. 66; Link, Enum. PL Hort. Berol. vol. i. 

 p. 342; Sprengel, Syst. Yeg. vol. ii. p. 94; Schultes, Syst. Veg. 

 vol. vii. p. 357; Trimen, Handb. El.. Ceylon vol. iv. p. 267, 

 partly (excluding from the above references all synonyms not 

 quoted here). Aloe zeylanica puviila foliis variegatis, Pluk. 



Almagest. Bot. p. 17, t. 256, fig. 5; and Commelin Hort. Med. 



Amstelodam, Rar. PI. vol. ii. p. 41, t, 21. Aloe hyacinthoides 

 var. zeylanica, Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. p. 321. Aloe zeylanica, 

 Jacq. Enum. Stirp. Agro. Vindob. p. 310. Aletris hyacinthoides 

 var. zeylanica, liinn. Sp. PL ed. ii. p, 456, and Mantissa ii. 



p. 367. Aletris zeylanica, Lam. Encycl. vol. i. p. 79, not of 

 Miller. 



