Mr. Haworth's Descriptiofi of nCiSo Succulent Plants. 353 



Kumara disticha of p. 7. t. 4. of Medic. Theodora ; a 

 work unknown to the writer, and a name which, 

 in right of priority, he ought to have retamed. Wili- 

 denow joined to the above plant, as a second species 

 oi Rhipidodendron, the celebrated Quiver-tree of the 

 Caffrarians; the Aloe dichotoma of Alton's Hortus 

 Kewe?isis, so well represented and figured in Patter- 

 son's Travels in Caffraria, in four separate tables, &c. 



It must be further observed, that our present plant 

 (the Al. disticha « of Liim.) does not appear to be 

 the Aloe linguiforme (melius liiiguiformis) of Millei*, or 

 A. lingua oi Ait. Hort. Kew. — mi/ oxvn publications — or 

 those of other English writers : nor do 1 even suppose 

 the plant itself was in any English collection before 

 the year 1819, when I introduced it as above, from the 

 Prince de Salm Dyck, as his Aloe lingua. 



And it should moreover be remarked, that the Aloe 

 disticha of Mill. Diet. ed. 8. No. 5, is the Aloe per- 



Joliata, var. saponaria of Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. — 

 And that Miller's Aloe linguiforme (melius lingui- 



fo)rmis). Diet. ed. 8. No. 13, is our common Tongue- 

 aloe, the Gasteria excavata of the present Decade : and 

 that Miller's variety of it, mentioned by him as much 

 more spotted, is in all probability the Gasteria angidata 

 of this Decade ; because the plant cited by Miller as 

 figured by Commeline in t. 8 of his 2d vol. of Hort. 

 Amst. (as above mentioned) could scarcely belong to 

 the plant he described ; as it was not, I presume, then 

 in England. For, had that been the case, being a 

 very free and durable plant, it would have remained, 

 which does not appear to have been the case. The 

 only Gasteriee I can trace as having been in England 

 before the year 1819, are the twelve species of the 

 Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum. 



Neither can we close this long digression without 

 finally stating, that the subject of the present article 

 (the original Aloe disticha a of Linn.) is not the Aloe 

 lingua of Thunb., a plant whose stem is six feet high ; 

 nor, consequently, the Aloe linguifolia of Limi. Fit. 

 (both of which synonyms are very clearly no other 

 than the above and often-mentioned Rhipidodendron 

 distichuni of Wiildenow). 



conspurcata. G. (dense small spotted) foliis late linguiformi- 



14". bus obtusis perviridibus numerosissimc pallido-punc- 



tulatis; laleribus sublubercuiato-dcnticulatis truncatis. 



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