Aloe.] CXL. LiLiACE^ (baker). 4G5 



segments shorter than the tube. Stamens as long as the perianth. 



Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 1(55 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr 

 104. 



xrile Iiand. Mountains of Abyssinia, alt. 6000 ft., Schiviper, 798. 



No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 



Introduced into cultivation in Europe in 1878. 



The native country of the allied A. Paxil, Terrac. in Boll. Ort. Palerm. i. (1897) 

 68, is unknown. 



28. A. obscura. Miller, Gard. Diet. edit. viii. No. 0. Stem \-l ft. 

 long below the rosette of leaves. Leaves 15-30 in a dense rosette, 

 lanceolate, 1 ft. long, 2-3 in. broad, lineate and copiously spotted ; 

 marginal teeth deltoid-cuspidate, -y^-^ in. long. Peduncle simple or 

 forked, lJ-2 ft. long. E-aceme dense, cylindrical, J-1 ft. long; lower 

 pedicels 1-1 J in. long ; bracts deltoid-cuspidate, much shorter than the 

 pedicels. Perianth bright red, IJ-lJ in. long ; segments shorter than 

 the tube. Stamens slightly exserted. — Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 

 App. iii. 39 ; Baker in Fl. Cap. vi. 314. 



Xio-wer Guinea. German South-west Africa : Amboland ; Oshando, Schinz, 

 345. 



Also in South Africa. 



Ko specimen from Tropical Africa at Kew. 



29. A. platyphylla, Baker in Toxins. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 2 04. 



Caudex simple, J-1 ft. long. Leaves densely rosulate, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, glaucous green, densely lineate and spotted with white, 

 ^-1 ft. long, 2 J-3 in. broad low down ; marginal teeth crowded, horny, 

 deltoid, ^ in. long. Peduncle 3-4 ft. long including the panicled in- 

 florescence; racemes lax, cylindrical, J-1 ft. long; pedicels | in. long; 

 bracts lanceolate. Perianth red, 1;^ in. long ; tube short. Stamens 

 not exserted. — Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 167. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Puugo Andongo ; frequent in dry thickets, WeltoUsch ! 



No specimen at Kew. 



30. A. tenuifolia. Lam. Encyc. i. 87? Caudex short, simple. 

 Leaves densely rosulate, lanceolate, 12-15 in. long, 2-21 in. broad 

 below the middle, narrowed gradually to the apex, pale green, not 

 lineate, |-J in. thick in the middle, flat below the tip, tinged with red- 

 brown, variegated with copious small confluent oblong whitish blotches ; 

 marginal teeth crowded, unequal, small, deltoid. Flowers unknown. — 

 Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 163. 



Mozamb. Sist. German East Africa : Zanguebar, Kirk ! 

 Described from a living plant sent to Kew in 1877. 

 No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 



31. A. Hildebrandtii, Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 6981. Leaves laxly 

 disposed on a simple erect stem lJ-2 ft. long, lanceolate, amplexicaul, 

 under 1 ft. long, l|-2 in. broad low down, glaucous green, with a few 

 white spots ; marginal teeth small, deltoid-cuspidate. Peduncle 1 h ft. 

 long including the panicle produced from the axis of one of the upper 



