460 cxu LiLiACEiE (baker). [Aloe^ 



linear, connivent, half as long as the tube. Stamens included. Capsule- 

 oblong, I in. long. 



BKozamb. Dist. Zambesi Valley, at Nhaondue, Menyharth, 1248 ! 



16. A. rubrolutea, Schinz in Bvll. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 39.. 

 Stem thick, 3-5 ft. long. Leaf-rosette 20 in. diam. ; leaves lanceolate,. 

 4 in. broad low down ; teeth short, remote, horny, tipped with brown- 

 Racemes dense, copiously panicled ; pedicels finally J in. long ; bracts 

 large, broadly lanceolate. Perianth red-yellow ; segments not over i in^ 

 long. Stamens included. 



Aower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland j Kuisib River,. 

 Fleclc, 472. Great Namaqualand ; Rehoboth, Fleck, 497a. 



Mozamb. I>l8t> British Central Africa : Kalahari, at Oliphant's Kloof, Fleck,. 

 263. 



No specimen at Kew. 



17. A. venenosa, ^71^?. JaAr6. XV. 471. Stem unknown. Leaves 

 thick, lanceolate, above 1 ft. long, 3 in. broad low down; marginal 

 teeth deltoid, \ in. long and broad, absent from the upper quarter of the 

 leaf. Inflorescence copiously panicled, 1-1 J ft. long ; peduncle stout; 

 branches long, dense, racemose ; bracts lanceolate, scariose, above J in. 

 long, about equalling the pedicels. Perianth pale red ; tube cylindrical, 

 slightly curved, above J in. long; segments shorter than the tube. 

 Stamens as long as the perianth. 



Soutb Central. Lunda : between Kimbandu and Nyangwe, Pogge, 1460. 

 No specimen at Kew. 



18. A. borziana, Terrac. in Boll. Ort. Palerm. i. (1897) 67. Sub- 

 caulescent. Leaves densely rosulate, oblong-lanceolate, 8-10 in. long> 

 3 in. broad, glaucous green, very rigid and thick, usually flat on the face, 

 irregularly spotted with white, distinctly margined with white ; teeth . 

 distant, deltoid, horny. Peduncle lJ-2 ft. long. Inflorescence very 

 compound ; flowers in dense racemes at the end of the branches ; pedicels 

 about 1 in. long; bracts half as long as the pedicels. Perianth IJ in. 

 long; tube cylindrical, constricted above the ovary; segments yellow 

 or tinged with red. Stamens included. Capsule 1-1 J in. long. 



irile ]band. Abyssinia. 



Described from plants grown in the Botanic Gardens at Palermo, of which llie 

 seeds were sent by Schimper and Braun. 

 No specimen at Kew. 



19. A. nispoliana, Baker. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 9-10 in. 

 long, nearly 3 in. broad low down, thin for the genus ; marginal teeth 

 very minute, distant, or altogether obsolete. Panicle 1 ft. long; 

 branches long, ascending, the lower compound ; flowers concentrated at 

 the tip of the branches ; bracts small, ovate ; pedicels \ in. long. 

 Perianth cylindrical, 1 in. long; segments shorter than the slender 

 tube. Stamens and style included. 



Wile Iiand. Somaliland: Ogaden ; at Milmil and Imi, Riiia, 918! 

 No specimen at Kew. 



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