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Aloe striata

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Name

Identification
Aloe striata Haw. [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Aloe striata Haw. [family ALOACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
Aloe striata Haw. [family ALOACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 18; Syn. 81;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 162.
Aloe paniculata Jacq. [family ALOACEAE], Fragm. 48, t. 62; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 691; Kunth, Enum. iv. 522.
Aloe albo-cincta Haw. [family ALOACEAE], Suppl. 43; Kunth, Enum. iv. 525.
Aloe hanburiana Naud. [family ALOACEAE], in Rev. Hort. 1875, 165.
Information
old plants with a stem 1–2 ft. long below the dense rosette of leaves; leaves 12–20, oblong-lanceolate, 1 1/2–2 ft. long, 4–8 in. broad, glaucous, obscurely spotted and lineate, 1/4– 1/3 in. thick in the middle; margin entire, cartilaginous, white or reddish, a line broad; peduncle very stout, much branched, bearing 20 or more dense capitate racemes; lower pedicels 1/2– 3/4 in. long; bracts minute, lanceolate; perianth bright red, 7/8–1 in. long; tube cylindrical, constricted above the ovary; stamens as long as the perianth; style shortly exserted. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Albany Div.; precipitous places near Grahamstown, 2200 ft., MacOwan, 1144! King Williamstown Div.; near the Chalumna River, living specimens of type and var. γ, introduced and grown by T. Cooper!
Notes
Introduced into cultivation about 1795. This and some of the other species, Mr. MacOwan says, are fertilized by the Nectarineæ, and if the birds are kept off by wire-netting, few or no capsules are produced. This is the only Aloe without any teeth to the leaves. A. Lynchii (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1881, xv. 266) is a hybrid between this very distinct species and Gasteria verrucosa, with flowers like those of the present plant but with dull green leaves half an inch thick, narrowed gradually from the base to the tip, and dotted all over with minute whitish spots. Mr. Lynch also crossed it with A. grandidentata, and the hybrid flowered at Kew in 1884.

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