PERICARPIUM. Capsula oblonga, trisulca, trilocularis, trivalvis. SEMINA plura, angulata. OBS. A. variegata sola habet stigma et stamina declinata. EMPALEMENT none. BLOSSOM. One petal, upright, six-cleft, oblong. Tube gouty. Limbs spreading and small, with honey at their base. CHIVES. Threads six, awl-shaped, the length of the blossom, and scarcely above it, inserted into the receptacle. Anthers oblong, and incumbent. POINTAL. Seed-bud ovate. Shaft simple, the length of the stamens. Summit obtuse, and three-sided. SEED-VESSEL. Capsule oblong, 3-furrowed, 3-celled, 3-valved. SEEDS many and angular. OBS. A. variegata simply has the pointal and stamens bent downwards. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. ALOE arborescens: floribus spicatis rubescentibus, apice viridibus: foliis porrectis, lanceolatis, carneis, apice recurvatis, marginibus serratis: caule ad basin nudo, superne foliis circumsesso. ALOE with a tree-like stem. Flowers grow in spikes of a soft red colour, green at the ends. Leaves straight out, lance-shaped, fleshy, and recurved, with sawed margins. Stem naked at the base, surrounded by the leaves on the upper part. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A leaf. 2. A flower spread open. 3. Seed-bud and pointal. 4. Miniature representation of the plant. This fine tall plant has been but rarely seen in bloom near town. The specimen from which our figure was made, was sent to London by the Rev. George Reading Leathes, from his collection at Bury St. Edmund’s, to his friend sir T. G. Cullum, bart. and obligingly communicated to us by that gentleman. It grows twelve feet high, and is considered as one of the loftiest of the Aloe tribe (the dichotoma and ferox excepted), the former of which is said to arrive sometimes to the enormous height of twelve feet in circumference round the stem, twenty feet high, and four hundred round the extremity of the branches. Colonel Paterson, in his Travels in Africa, mentions, that after crossing the Cousie or Sand River he visited a European and his family, who with their cattle had no other tenement but what nature had furnished them with in the Aloe dichotoma. [Illustration] PLATE CCCCLXIX. PROTEA CORONATA. _Crown-flowered Protea._ CLASS IV. ORDER I. _TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Four Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA 4-fida, seu 4-petala. Antheræ lineares, petalis infra apices insertæ. Calyx proprius, nullus. Sem. solitaria. BLOSSOM four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips linear, inserted into the petals below the points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary. SPECIFIC CHARACTER.