Aloe.] CXL. LiLiACE^ (baker). 469 



in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 178, and in Fl. Cap. vi. 325 ; Schinz in 

 Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 38. 



Ito-wer Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland ; near Usako?, 

 2700 ft., Marloth, 1439. 



Also south of the Tropic in Namaqualand. 



Imperfectly known Species. 



51. A. megalacantha. Baker. Leaves lanceolate, IJ ft. or more 

 long, 3-4 in. broad low down, tapering gradually to the point, thick, 

 rigid; marginal teeth large, spreading, crowded, horny, deltoid, J in. 

 long. Flowers only seen detached. Perianth cylindrical, 1 in. long ; 

 tube short, campanulate ; segments long, linear. Stamens included. 

 Style exserted. 



wile Iiand. Somaliland, Riva, 905 ! 



No specimen .^t Kew. 



7. HAWORTHIA, Duval; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 777. 



Perianth-tube oblong ; limb bilabiate ; segments oblong, the 3 upper 

 reflexing more than the 3 lower. Stamens 6, shorter than the perianth, 

 hypogynous ; anthers oblong, versatile, dehiscing down the face. Ovary 

 ovoid, 3-celled ; ovules many in a cell ; style subulate ; stigma small, 

 capitate. Capsule loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds much compressed, not 

 winged ; testa black ; albumen flesh}'' ; embryo straight. — Leaves fleshy, 

 usually congested into a basal rosette, often marked with lines and 

 white chalky dots. Peduncle simple or forked. Flowers small, white, 

 usually laxly racemose. 



Species 60, the others all South African. 



1. H. angolensis. Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. '2^'6. 

 Rootstock thickened, covered with ovate-lanceolate scales l^-H in. 

 long. Leaves G-12 in a dense rosette, erect, linear, glaucous, flattish, 

 2-3 in. long ; marginal teeth minute. Peduncle slender, J ft. long. 

 Raceme lax, subspicate, 4-5 in. long; flowers erecto-patent ; bracts 

 ovate-cuspidate. Perianth J in. long; lobes keeled with green, much 

 shorter than the tube. — Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 210. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Huilia ; subteniperate region, in siindv woods. Wcl. 

 witsch ! 



8. SCHIZOBASIS, Baker; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 7>«;. 



Perianth campanulate, polyphyllous, persistent ; segments oblong, 

 subequal, spreading. Stamens 0, shorter than the perianth, inserted at 

 the base of the segments ; filaments filiform or slightly flattened, 

 glabrous; anthers oblong, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 

 globose, 3-celled ; ovules few in a cell ; style subulate ; stigma minute, 



