of the Genus Aloe. 15 



creeping root, and has not one species nearly 

 allied to it in all the genus. 



plicatilis. Aloe foliis bifariis glaucis, caule fruticoso dicho- 



28 tomo. 



A. plicatilis. Willd. Sp. Pl.2. 190. Ait.Kew. 1. 470. 

 Curt. Bot. Mag.f. 457. 



A. africana arborescens montananon spinosa, folio 

 longissimo plieatili, flore rubro. Coram. Hort. 2. 

 p. 5. t.3. 



A. caulescens palmae facie. Pet. Gaz. Cat. 467. 

 *. 89. /. 3. mala. 



Obs. This is the most branched and thickest- 

 stemmed of all : in the habit of its bifarious leaves 

 it resembles the species of the last section, but 

 the structure of the flowers unerringly refers it to 

 the present one. 



ft Acaules, foliis multifariis ciliato-dentatis radicalilus. 



humilis. Aloe foliis subulatis supra turgidis undique inerme 



29 tuberculato-spinosis. 



a. foliis supra turgidis inerme spinosis; infra tuber- 

 culatis; apicibus rectiusculis, bracteis internodio 

 longioribus, stylo staminibus breviore. 



A. humilis «. ll'ilhl. Sp. PL 2. 187. 



A. humilis. Plantes Grasses, p. 39, cum icone. 



A. perfoliata £. humilis. Ait. Ken-. 1. 46'7- 



A. africana humilis, spinis inermibus et verrucis ob- 

 sita. Comm.Pral. 77. t. l 26. Till. Pis. t. 6. mala. 

 * incurva. (2- foliis subulatis teretiusculis undique valdetuber- 

 culatis : apicibus incunatis, bracteis internodio 

 brevioribus, stylo staminibus longiore. 



* tuberculata. 



