- PLATE CCCCLXVIII. 
: ALOE ARBORESCENS, Fi 
Tree Aloe. 3 s 
CLASS VI. ORDER qi 
RELA MON OGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 
oe Sen GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Catyx neil 
3: EMPALEMENT none. 
Corotta. Monopetala, erect erecta, sexfida, ob- Bossom. One petal, upright, six-cleft, ob- 
~ longa. Tubus gibbus, Limbi patuli, par- long. Tube gouty. Limbs spreading and 
vi, fundo nectarifero. ___ small, with honey at thei z 
Cuives. Threads six, awl-shaped, the length 
in- of the blossom, and s carcely above it, in- 
serted into the réctpiecle: Anthers oblong, 
dine corolle, fere 
Stamina, Filamenta ae a. longitu. 
receptacul 
serta, Anthere yaad incumbentes. 
*, 
and incumbent. 
Prsriium. ‘Beriuct ovatum, Stylus simplex, . PointTat. Seed-bud ovate. Shaft eng the bs 
ine staminum, Stigma obtusum, length of the stamens. Summit obtuse, 
and three-sided. 
Penicaxrium, mole —— trisnlca, tri- SEED-vesseEL. piri oblong, 3-furrowed, 3+ 
locularis, trival celled, 3-valve 
Semtwa plura, angula SEEDs many and an nai 
Oss, A. vatiegata sola habet stigma et stamina Oss, A. variegata simply has the pointal and 
decliata. stamens bent downwards, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
— tote a tree-like stem. Flowe; rs pd = 
Atoz arborescens: floribus spicatis rubescenti- 
bus, apice viridibus : foliis porrectis, lan- 
a red colour, green at * 
ceolatis, carneis, apice recurvatis, ma margini- Sada Leaves straight out, aan 
bus serratis : caule ad basin nudo, superne fleshy, and recurved, with sawed margins. 
foliis circumsesso, Stem naked at the base, surrounded by the _ 
leayes on the upper part. 
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: REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, ? : ye 
1, A leaf. 
2. A flower spread open. ty 
3. Seed-bud and pointal. 4, 
4, iature representation of the ‘plant, : 
ee 
- ae or pet :Bas been but rarel hich out figure 
Y seen in bloom near town. The specimen from w 
_ Was made, was se to London by the Rey. George Reading Leathes fac m his collection at Bury St. 
Bamana eacdaphy: his fiend sir T. G, "Cullum, bart. a obligingly secanrack to us by that gentleman. 
» and i the dichotoma and 
ferox caceytalh. a Pre cakeo 8 faich ia cs as one of the lottiest of the A ibe (the 
in circumference r 
os. 
branches. Colonel nd the tem, twenty feet high, and four hundred round the extremity * the 
hat after crossing the C : 
Sand Boos Bixee he visited a European dad his fatale who with the a t fur wets 
> their cattle had no other tenemen 
nature had furnished them with in the Aloe echaicen 
