Aloe.] CXL. LiuACE^ (baker). 4G1 



20. A. lateritia, E7i(/L Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. UO. Caudex very short. 

 Leaves very thick, lanceolate, 9-10 in. long, 2 in. broad low down, 

 mottled with white linear spots ; teeth rather large, deltoid, with a 

 horny tip. Inflorescence panicled ; flowers aggregated at the end of the 

 branches ; bracts small, lanceolate, acuminate ; lower pedicels 1 in. long. 

 Perianth slightly curved, \\ in. long ; segments brick -red, as long as the 

 tube, with a narrow orange margin. Stamens included. Capsule oblong, 

 1 in. long, transversely rugose. Seeds ovoid, with a wing \ in. broad. 



Mozainb* Bist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; at Rombo, 4000-5000 ft., 

 Volkens, 404 ! 



No specimen at Kew. 



21. A. Schimperiy Todaro, Hort. Lot. Panorm. i. 70, t.lG. Caudex 

 short, simple. Leaves densely rosulate, ovate-lanceolate, 1-H ft. long, 

 6-7 in. broad low down, glaucous green, distinctly lineate, "obscurely 

 spotted, concave above the middle, furnished with a thin reddish homy 

 border; teeth crowded, irregular, minute, deltoid. Peduncle stout, 

 2-3 ft. long, much branched. Raceme short, crowded ; pedicels 1-1 1 in. 

 long ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, ^ in. long. Perianth bright red, 18-21 lin. 

 Jong, constricted above the ovary; segments rather shorter than the 

 tube. Stamens slightly exserted. Capsule oblong-cylindrical, nearly 

 1 in. long. — Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 159 ; Schweinf. in Bull. 

 Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 70, 110. A. lineata, var. lati/olia, A. Br. in 

 Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1869, 7. 



N-ile Xiand. Eritrea : near Halai, 8400 ft., Schweinfurth, 152 ! Kohaito Plateau, 

 8400-8700 ft., Schweinfurth^ 153 ! Saganeiti, in the Goua Gorge, near Addingfou, 

 Schweinfurth Sf Siva, 722 ! 1330 ! 



Introduced into cultivation in 1869. 



22. A. concinna. Baker. Caudex short, simple. Leaves laxly 

 rosulate, lanceolate, 3-4 in. long, 1 in. broad low down, tapering 

 gradually to the channelled recurved tip, green on both surfaces with 

 copious white blotches, not lineate; marginal teeth large, close, deltoid. 

 Peduncle simple, compressed, rather longer than the leaves. Raceme 

 oblong, moderately dense, 2 in. long ; pedicels short, ascending ; bracts 

 lanceolate, as long as the pedicels. Perianth bright red, 1 in. long ; 

 tube very short. Stamens as long as the perianth. 



XVXozamb. Bist. Zanzibar, cultivated specimen, Kirk ! 

 Described from a plant that flowered at Kew, April 1895. 



23. A, zebrina. Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. '2(j\. 

 Caudex simple, J ft. long. Leaves densely rosulate, spreading, lanceolate, 

 J-1 ft. long, 1—2 in. broad low down, glaucous, copiously spotted with 

 white on both sides; marginal teeth deltoid, \-\ in. long. Peduncle 

 3-4 ft. long including the inflorescence, panicled ; racemes lax, cylin- 

 drical, |-1 ft. long ; pedicels \-^ in. long ; bracts small, lanceolate. 

 Perianth brick-red, |-1 in. long ; tube short. Stamens as long as the 

 perianth ; style exserted. Capsule oblong-trigonous, 1 in. long. — Baker 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 167. 



Tiower Guinea. Angola : Barra do Bengo, Loanda, and Lebongo, Wtlwitsch, 

 3720 ! 3721 ! 3722 ! 3724! 3725 ! 



