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81074 to 81208— Continued. 



81117. No. 100. Variety erecta. A 

 form with narrower leaves, spotted 

 when young and red margined. 



81118. Aloe ferox Mill. 



No. 101. A perennial native to 

 South Africa. It has a thick stem 10 

 to 15 feet high and a rosette of curved 

 glaucous, lanceolate leaves 2 feet long 

 by 5 inches wide and half an inch 

 thick. The upper and lower surfaces 

 are prickly, and the purple margins 

 are armed with large red-brown teeth. 

 The flowering stem is 4 feet high, and 

 the greenish yellow flowers with smoky 

 tipped segments are 1 to 2 inches long. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 77217. 



81119. Aloe gbandidentata Salm-Dyck. 



No. 102. A short-stemmed fleshy 

 plant with a dense rosette of 12 to 20 

 bright-green lanceolate leaves a foot or 

 more long, with crowded brown-tipped 

 marginal teeth. The pale-red or red- 

 dish yellow flowers are in three to 

 seven racemes on a stout peduncle 1% 

 to 2 feet long. Native to South Africa. 



81120. Aloe greatheadii Schoenland. 



No. 103. A fleshy plant from the 

 Kalahari region of South Africa. The 

 stem is about a foot high, with a ter- 

 minal dense rosette of lanceolate, dark 

 shining-green leaves up to 9 inches 

 long. The whitish flowers are in dense 

 racemes in a branching inflorescence 

 2 to 4 feet high. 



81121. Aloe heteracantha Baker. 



No. 105. A succulent plant with a 

 stem a foot high and 15 to 30 lanceo- 

 late green or red tinted leaves 6 to 12 

 inches long, in a dense rosette. The 

 short-tubular bright-red flowers are in 

 a dense raceme on a peduncle 1 to 3 

 feet long. Native to South Africa. 



81122. Aloe johnstonii Baker. 



No. 106. A stemless succulent plant 

 with a globose rootstock and 8 to 12 

 erect linear thin leaves 1 to 1% feet 

 long, channelled along the upper sur- 

 face. The dense capitate raceme of 

 pale-pink flowers is on a simple, stiffly 

 erect peduncle 1% feet high. Native 

 to British East Africa. 



81123. Aloe lateritia Engler. 



No. 107. A short-stemmed aloe with 

 very thick, lanceolate, white-spotted 

 leaves about 10 inches long with rather 

 large horny-tipped deltoid marginal 

 teeth. The brick-red flowers are in 

 clusters at the ends of the branches of 

 the peduncle. Native to Mozambique. 



81124. Aloe latifolia Haw. 



No. 108. The glossy green oblong- 

 lanceolate leaves of this aloe are a 

 foot or less long, with brown horny 

 marginal prickles. The bright reddish 

 yellow flowers, an inch long, are on a 

 stout, simple or forked peduncle 1 or 

 2 feet long. Native to South Africa. 



81125. Aloe macrocarpa Tod. 



No. 109. A short-s t e m m e d aloe 

 with a dense rosette of lanceolate, thin, 

 green leaves iy 2 feet long ; the mar- 

 gins are reddish white and set with 



81074 to 81208— Continued. 



rather large deltoid teeth. The red 

 flowers are in oblong racemes on a 

 peduncle 3 feet high. Native to norths 

 eastern Africa. 



81126. Aloe percrassa Tod. 



No. 110. An aloe native to north- 

 eastern Africa. It develops a round; 

 cluster of narrow, sword-shaped, fleshy, 

 deep-green, sometimes spotted leaves, 

 up to 2y 2 feet long, with small brown 

 marginal teeth. The red flowers are 

 in racemes about a foot long on a^ 

 branched peduncle 3 feet high. 



81127. Aloe perryi Baker. 



No. 111. A nearly stemless plant 

 with a stem scarcely an inch high and 

 a rosette of lanceolate, pale glaucous- 

 green leaves 7 to 8 inches long. These 

 are furnished with very small brown 

 horny marginal teeth. The flowering- 

 stalk is a foot and a half high. Na- 

 tive to the island of Socotra. 



81128. Aloe pseudopicta Berger. 



No. 113. A stemless aloe with 

 spreading, narrow, triangular, thick, 

 fleshy, pale-green leaves up to a foot 

 long, with reddish triangular marginal 

 teeth. The light-red flowers are in a 

 rather lax cylindrical raceme on a 

 scape 2 feet high. A hybrid grown at 

 La Mortola, Ventimiglia, Italy. 



81129. Aloe purpdrascens (Ait.) Haw. 



No. 112. The stem of this plant is 

 2 to 3 feet long below the dense ro- 

 sette of 40 to 60 sword-shaped leaves. 

 These are 1% feet long, very glaucous, 

 turning purple when old, and armed 

 with deltoid white horny marginal 

 prickles. The reddish flowers are in a 

 simple dense receme a foot long. Na- 

 tive to South Africa. 



81130. Aloe rubrolutea Schinz. 



No. 114. A tropical succulent na- 

 tive to southwestern Africa, with a 

 stout simple trunk 7 to 12 feet or more 

 high, bearing a dense rosette of nar- 

 row-ensiform leaves up to 2 feet long 

 and light-red flowers in a branched 

 inflorescence a foot high. 



81131. Aloe rubroviolacea Schweinf. 



No. 115. An unbranched aloe, 

 hardly 3 feet high, with a thick, curved 

 stem terminated by a dense rosette of 

 triangular, purplish, fleshy leaves about 

 2 feet long and light-red flowers iy 2 

 inches long in dense racemes on a 

 . forked inflorescence 2 feet high. Native 

 to Arabia. 



81132. Aloe rdncinata Berger. 



No. 116. A dense cespitose aloe 

 with lanceolate green or purplish 

 leaves 16 inches long, armed with 

 stout triangular horny marginal teeth. 

 The stout branched scape, about 3 feet 

 high, bears racemes of light-red flowers. 

 Probably a native to South Africa. 



81133. Aloe salmdyckiana Schult. f. 



No. 117. A succulent, native to 

 South Africa, with a stem 10 to 12 feet 

 high bearing at the summit a dense 

 rosette of 30 to 40 dull-green, sword- 

 shaped leaves iy 2 to 2 feet long. The 

 bright-red cylindrical flowers are in a 

 dense raceme a foot long, on a scape 

 about the same length. 



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