Tab. 6324. 
ALOE TRICOLOR. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Nat. Orel. Liliaceas — Tribe Aloine^e. 
Genus Aloe, Linn. (. Kunth , Enum. vol. iv. p. 492). 
Aloe tricolor; breviter caulescens, foliis 12-15 dense rosulatis lanceolatis 
semipedalibus e basi ad apicem attenuatis sordide viridibus maculis copiosis 
parvis albidis irregulariter seriatis decoratis margine dentibus parvis 
deltoideis cuspidatis patulis apice castaneis corneis armatis, scapo sesqui- 
pedali, paniculis deltoideis parce ramosis ramis brevibus densifloris race- 
mosis, pedicellis 3-4 lin. longis, bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis pedicello 
sequilongis, perianthii splendide corallino-rubri tubo cylindrico medio 
constricto, segmentis oblongis introrsum luteis tubo duplo brevioribus, 
genitalibus inclusis. 
This is a fine new dwarf Aloe of the Pictee group. It 
differs from A . ohscura , Miller, and from the well- 
known A. Saponaria , Haworth, with its many subspecies and 
varieties, by its typically racemose, not capitate inflorescence 
and by its perianth strongly constricted in the middle. In 
both these points it agrees with A . macrocarpa , a species 
lately described and figured by Todaro, (Hort. Bot. Panorm. 
tab. 9) sent by Schimper from Abyssinia, from which our 
present plant differs in the shape and maculation of its 
leaves. Perhaps it may be, as Mr. 1ST. E. Brown has 
suggested, the A. arabica of which the foliage alone is 
described by Salmdyck (see Kunth, Enum. vol. iv. p. 525). 
But it is clearly not the plant originally named arabica by 
Lamarck, which is founded on the Arabian A. variegata of 
Forskahl. Our present plant flowered for the first time in 
the Kew collection this spring. We received it from the 
Oxford Botanic Garden, and on applying to Professor 
Lawson he tells me that they got it some time ago, labelled 
as a Cape species, from Mr. Justus Corderoy, of Blewbury. 
Descr. Stem very short, simple. Leaves twelve to fifteen, 
OCTOBER 1st, 1877. 
