Plate. 
XXII. 
Fig... 
A COMBPLIEAT BODY 
5 WARTED CORAL“ALOR, 
‘The ssisditbin Variety of the Aloe Kinds has 
fufficient Attention among our Collections; and — 
there are few Species which more deferve it than 
the prefent. 
“Many of the later Writers have nam’d’ this ; and 
fome have rafhly made two or three imaginary 
Species from its various Afpect, when more or 
. defs vigorous, or under a better or worfe Manage- 
ment. 
_ -Comme.ine, who with great Diligence exa- 
mined the Aloe Kind, calls it Moe Africana flore | 
rubro, folio triangulari S verrucis ab = parte 
albicantibus notato. 5 * 
 Linnavs, Aloe fulbis eign Sir eldeay patulis di- 
fiichis: Aloe, with Tongue-like Leaves, that 
fpread in two Series. .A very expreffive Name. 
The Root is thick and pale. 
The Leaves rife from this in a nscade and 
fplit, as it were, into two. Arrangements : they 
are fo very fingular and beautiful, that if the 
Plant had nothing more. to: recommend it, none 
would refufe it a Place in their Colleétions. 
: They are eight Inches long, 
: 3 
Their Colour is a very ftrong and elegant 
green; and they are cover’d on both Sides with 
white Tubercles, in the Manner of Warts. _Thefe 
have no regular Shape or Form, but lie feattered 
in a thoufand Figures upon every Part of the 
Leaves, to the Extremity, where they terminate 
in a Point. 
The Fives. ftalk rifes to the Height of two 
~ plofiy red, refembling a Piece of polifh’d Coral. 
_ Toward the Top it droops with the Weight of a 
_ dong Spike of Flowers, 
Thefe are oblong, hollow, and divided at the 
Rim into fix ‘irregular Segments, which turn back 
a little. 
on which it hangs in a drooping Pofture. 
3 moderately broad, 
thick, and fomewhat triangular ; in Form. — 
they adher’d, is dry: 
Each Flower has a fhort and flender | 
Footftalk, of a paler red than the principal Stalk, © 
there rife feveral Lines, or “very nattow Streaks 
of white: .Thefe, as well as the green Bafe, are 
moft’ diftinét in the unripe Flowers : for in thote 
fully mature, the red is almott univerfal. 
For the reft, the Flower is like the others of © | 
the Aloe Kind, which we have deferibed before. 
It is form’d of one Piece; it hangs to the Foot- 
ftalk without a Cup, and within, there ftand fix 
Filaments, which are of the Length of the tubu- 
lar Part, or a little more, with a fingle Style 
among them. 
_ This fhews the Plant to be one of the Pe aniiria 
capper th of Linna&us. | 
_ The Seed- veftel which follows, is s oblong, and 
form’d- ‘of. three Parts, mark’d with three 
Furrows, and divided into three Cells, in each of 
which are numerous fnall Seeds. 
Culture of this ALOE. 
This is one a the divicen Kinds which prbdabs 
| a great Number of Off-fets, and are eal propa- 
gated from them. 
~The beft Soil for it is thus iacie 
“Mix equal Parts of dry Pafture- Earth and 
| Sand : add -half the Quantity of foft Chalk. 
| “Ee four Bufhels of this Mixture put a Peck * 
~ Lime. 
| Mear. 
Mix thefe well,;.and let them lie out 
: Then fill as many Pots as there are to be 
Suckers rais’d. . Let the Suckers be care- 
| fully taken from the old Plants; and laid on a 
oF oot and a half, and is round, ie and of a 
Shelf in an airy Room, till the Bottom, where 
ne are then fit to be 
planted. | 
The Pots pone: be very {mall; and the whole 
| Management _ the fame as in the other “African 
Kinds which we have mentioned already. 
If this Compoft be not made in Time, the 
| common Kind we have already directed for the 
| African Aloes, will anfwer the Purpofe: but it is 
The general Colour of the Flower is red, but — 
‘toward the Bafe it is greenifh; and from this Part - 
in this particular Mixture I have feen the Plant 
rife to its full Perfection. 
Plate 
AX. 
Fig. 6. moft Curious ; 
© QORAITOZ DE RY ACTIN T BH. 
This is a Plant of the moft extreme Singularity : 
worthy to be every where introduced among the 
and demanding the Notice of the 
Botanical Student in a eceiitiar Manner, as it 
greatly departs from the exterior Form of the 
Genus to which it belongs, and very much refem- 
bles another. 
Let the Student sal his Eye unprejudicedly 
upon the Figure given in the annexed Plate 
{which is taken from a very perfect Specimen of | 
the Plant) and he will fcarce diftinguifh that it. 
is of the Hyacinth Kind. The Leaves, the 
Stalk, and the Manner of growing, perfeétly re- 
femble the Orchis’s: and the exterior Struc- 
ture of the Flower has nothing of the Hyacinth 
Form; nor Colour. 
The Characters thus mifreprefented by the 
Wantonnefs of Nature to the more carelefs 
View, are impreffed diftinétly on the more ef- 
fential Parts, and are too plain and obvious to 
admit Miftake. 
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