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ALOE brevifolia. 
Lesser proliferous Aloe. 
ren 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ASPHODELER. 
ALOE Tourn.— Calyx fundo nectarifer, 6-fidus aut feré 6-partitus, 
laciniis rectis aut revolutis, basi staminiferis. Stigma subtrilobum. 
Caudex in quibusdam frutescens et foliosus; folia succulenta, imbricata, in 
pluribus margine et superficie spinosa ; spice axillares aut terminales, inter- 
dum ramose. Seminis germinantis lobus sessilis appingitur latert vagine 
primarie. Juss. gen. 52. 
A. brevifolia ; subacaulis, foliis lanceolatis acutis glaucis : marginibus carina- 
que apice spinosis yix cartilagineis: subtis subtuberculatis. Haworth 
revis. succ. 202, 
Aloe Africana caulescens foliis glaucis brevissimis. Comm. pral. 22. 
Aloe brevioribus foliis, &c. Mull. dict. ed. 8. 
A. prolifera. Haworth in Linn. trans. v. 7. 16. 
For the synonyms, and what else we can say respecting 
this plant, we are indebted to Adrian Hardy Haworth, 
Esq., whose valuable remarks upon the subject we take 
the liberty of laying before our readers. 
«This Aloe,’ Mr. Haworth informs us, “‘ appears to be 
the Aloe prolifera of my paper in Linn. Tr. v. 7. p. 16; and 
Aloe brevioribus (rectius brevifolia) of Mill. Dict. ed. 8; and, 
finally, my Aloe brevifolia, in Revis. pl. succ. p. 202-3. 
‘** My reason for not originally calling it drevifolia, in 
Linn. Tr. in loco, was, because another plant was named 
A. perfoliata, brevifolia, by Solander, in Hort. Kew. v. 1. 
p. 467; and it was in submission to such authority, that I 
followed it, but raised Solander’s plant to the rank of a 
species. This last plant, afterwards (from its distant 
leaves) became the Aloe distans of my Synops. pl. succ.” 
