A COMPLEAT BODY 
5 WARTED CORAL ALOE, 
The everlafting Variety of the Aloe Kinds has _ 
fufficient Attention among our Collections; and © 
- there'are few Species which more deferve it than 
| fully mature, .the red is almoft univerfal. 
the prefent.. 
Many of the later Writers have nam’d this; and 
forne have rafhly made two or three imaginary — 
Species from its various Afpect, when more or 
lefs vigorous, “or under a better or worfe Manage- 
ment. 
ComMMELINE, who with great Diligence exa- 
mined the Aloe Kind, calls it Aloe Africana flore 
rubro, folio triangulari & verrucis ab Sabdat as parte 
albicantibus notato. 
~Linnzzus, Aloe foliis Knguiformibus patulis di- 
fiichis: Aloe, with Tongue-like Leaves, that 
fpread in two Series. A very expreflive Name. — 
The Root is thick and pale. 
The Leaves rife from this in a Clufter, and 
‘fplit, as it were, into two Arrangements : 
are fo very fingular and beautiful, that if the 
Plant had nothing more to recommend it, none | 
would refufe it a Place in their Collections. 
‘They are eight Inches long, moderately bread, 
thick, and frncwlias teinuendar | in Form. 
_ 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 fcattered 
. In a thoufand Figures upon every Part of the 
Leaves, to the aged Sank where ae terminate 
~ in a Point. 
The Flower- ftalk rifes to the Height of two | 
Foot and a half, and is round, Srv. and of a 
Toward the Top it droops with the eight of a 
long Spike of Flowers. 
‘Thefe are oblong, hollow, and divided at the | 
‘Rim into fax irregular Segments, which turn back 
a little. 
on which it hangs in a.drooping Pofture. 
The general Colour of the Flower is red, but 
toward the Bafe it is greenifh; and from this Part . 
they 
Sap! : 
1 ear. 
‘there rife feveral Lines, or very narrow Streaks 
of white. Thefe, as well as the green Bafe, are | 
moft. diftinct in the unripe Flowers: for in thofe 
. For the reft, the Flower is like the others of 
the Aloe Kind, which we have defcribed before. 
| It is form’d of one Piece; it hangs to the F oot- 
{talk 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 Hexandria 
Monogynia of Linn avs. 
_ The Seed-veffel which follows, is shlons. and 
form’d of three Parts, mark’d with three 
Furrows, and divided into three Cells, in each of 
which are numerous fmall Seeds. 
Culture of this Aor. 
This is one of the African Kinds which produce | 
a great Number of Off- fets, and are ably propa- 
gated from them.  ___ 
The beft Soil for it 1S he eat 3 
Mix equal Parts of dry. Pafture-Earth ae 
add half the Quantity of foft Chalk, 
To four Bufhels of this Mixture put a Peck. of 
Lime. Mix .thefe well, and let them lie out a 
Then fill as many Pots as there are to be 
ston sais'd, . -Let .the- Suckers..be care; 
fully taken from the old Plants; and laid on a 
Shelf in an airy Room, till the Bottom, where 
glofly red, refembling a Piece of polifh’d-Coral. -| 
they adher’d, is dry: 
planted. - 
The Pots mutt be very fmall; and the mts 
Management the fame, as in the other Africax 
they are then fit to be 
_ Kinds which we have mentioned already. 
Fach Flower has.a fhort and flender | 
Footftalk, ef a paler red than the principal Stalk, | 
_If this Compoft be not made in Time, the 
common Kind we have already direéted for the 
African Aloes, will anfwer the Purpofe: but it is 
in this particular Mixture I have feen the Plant 
rife to its full Perfection, 
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Plate 
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Fig. 6+ moft Curious ; 
6 OR REOILDE we ACT ‘T i. 
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 peculiar 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 caft 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-diftinguith 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 polbaiecoeed by the. 
, AT etcctsiuwts of Nature to the more carelefs 
View, are imprefied diftinctly on the more ef- 
fential Parts, and are too plain and obvious to 
admit Miftake. 
BREYNIUS 
