Linguæform

If folium semilanceolatum, and semiellipticum, defined to be more than the upper halves of those leaves transversely cut, were admissible, they would very happily express the exact shapes of the leaves of several species of Aloe, which are not linguæform, and much too broad at the base to call subulate, and too much truncated there to call lanceolate, elliptic, or ovate.

The liver is linguæform, lies on the right side, with a small lobe on the left, and has a reddish-orange colour.

Septæ deeply sinuous; dorsal lobe cleft by a profound linguæform sinus with a broad base, into two narrow, elongated branches, which are not as wide as the sinus between, and which are gently expanded in the middle and narrowed to an acute point at their extremities by an oblique truncature of their inner margins; […]