of the Genus Aloe. 27 



all red, and somewhat longer; nevertheless I take 

 them to be the same." 



Obs. This plant must follow A. variegata in my 

 arrangement: if it should prove a variety of that 

 species, the figures are miserably bad. 



Petiver, in speaking of the three last-mentioned 

 figures, and his figure of A. arborescens (above 

 cited), informs us that his paintings of them do not 

 much differ from the figures of Plukenet, which 

 were made from paintings of Father Tachard's in 

 the Bishop of London's possession ; and Plukenet 

 says the Bishop's paintings were done at the Cape 

 itself, from life. 

 horrida. Aloe acaulis? foliis ovato-ensiformibus undique nu- 



7 merosissime spinosis et tuberculatis. 



A. ex Goa foliis crassissimis latissime mucronatis ru- 

 bentibus : spinis undique sparsis et verrucis tumen- 

 tibus obsitis. Till. Pis. t. 11. sineflore. 



Obs. If this is a stemless species, it will come 

 into my arrangement before A. suberecta; if it is 

 frutescent, (which from its large leaves is very pro- 

 bable,) it is possibly no more than a strong seedling 

 variety of A.ferox ; from which, however, it differs 

 very much in the erectness of those leaves. 

 rliodocantha. Aloe of the Plantes Grasses, p. 44. 



8 Obs. If this should not prove a variety of 



A.glauca, it should be inserted in my arrangement 



after A. depressa. It differs very much from the 



latter in its high-coloured spines; those of depressa 



e 3 are 



