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A NEW ALOE FROM ANGOLA. 
By Atwin BERGER. 
Tanks to Sir Thomas Hanbury, I was able to study the Aloes 
preserved in the Royal Herbarium at Kew and those of the British 
Museum, which latter contains oe types of the species collected by 
Welwitsch in Angola, and described by Mr. J. G. Baker. I was 
very happy to find Welwitsch’s caetally pressed specimens accom- 
panied by me valuable notes by the famous collector, made from 
the livid plan 
Ver 7 little. Ek since been collected in this region, and I was 
easton much surprised to find on the recently added sheets a 
plant which I at once recognized as a new species. he specimen 
not be at te 
A note on ‘the label, by the collector, John Gossweiler, runs like 
this :— Native name, ‘ Quicalango.’ This plant is found on every 
it is secured by a few sticks; it continues growing for years, of 
course, and its purpose is to bless the soins with a large number 
of childre 
From Mr. Gossweiler’s note from the specimen I have 
. drawn oo the following diagnosis : 
Aloe pedogona Berger, sp.n. Acaulis ; folia ensiformia, vix 
45 cm. aes , seepe purpurascentia, ad margines rectos haud si evertos 
dentibus basi crebrioribus superne remo ti stile instructa, dentes 
basales deltoidei minores erecti, superiores uncinato-incurvati, 
mm. longi et 10-40 mm. distantes ; ima apice tte: Inflore- 
scentie valde ramose usque 2 m. alte scapus validus, basi 5-7 cm. 
diam. ; floribus viridi- flavis conspicuis in racemis brevibus circ. 
7 cm. longis congestis; rami bracteis vacuis longe acuminatis 
remote munitis, Geaaiibe florigere basi lanceolate scariose sub 3- 
nervie, longe cuspidate, apice demum dictevaie, 15-25 mm. longe 
t 4 mm. la te ; pedicelli a . longi erecto-patuli; peri- 
antiient” basi longissime (per 6 mm. 1) et tenuissime stipitato- 
angustatum t hie p eo: ok crassius, circa ovarium ovato- 
u 
curvatum 
liberis ; filamenta ine sgh demum exsertu icelli fructi- 
feri, demum 5 em. lon ngi; capsule per 10-11 mm. stipitate et 25- 
30 mm. longer, chartacer, ne Semina oblonga late alata 
et a mm. longa, griseo 
ngola: at Malanga, io 1908; John Gossweiler, no. 946! 
(er “Mus. Brit 
r. Go sicwsitse remarks :—‘ A perennial with the habit of an 
sae takes to 18 in. long, often purplish green; flower-scape 
6 ft. high, 2-8 in. in diameter, and much branched towards the 
Jourvat or Borany.—Vou. 44. [Fes. 1906.] od 
