This species is a native of the Cape, and flowers in June, but not regularly so, increases very fast by offsets: Mr. Aiton makes it as he does all the Aloes indiscriminately, Dry Stove Plants, but it may be kept in a good green-house, taking care to place it in the driest and most airy part, and to guard it at all times from much wet, but more especially in the winter season.
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Diosma Serratifolia. Serrated or Saw-Leaved Diosma.
Class and Order.
Pentandria Monogynia.
Generic Character.
Cor. 5-petala. Nectaria 5 supra germen. Caps. 3. s. 5. coalitæ. Sem. calyptrata.
Specific Character.
DIOSMA serratifolia follis lanceolatis glanduloso-serrulatis, pedunculis axillaribus oppositis subunifloris.
