African Aloe; caulescent; keen gray; shorter than the leaves and stalks of them that lay hold; the internal part of the leaf; Aloe perfoliata Sp. I; Fig. 21; after p. 72; p. 127; 1703; Caspari Commelin ... Praeludia botanica ad publicas plantarum exoticarum demonstrationes; dicta in horto medico ... his accedunt plantarum rariorum et exoticarum in praeludiis botanicis recensitarum; icones & descriptiones. Lugduni Batavorum: apud Fredericum Haringh; 1703