Abstract
One of the authors (S. D.), working on a revision of the Ethiopian members of the genus Aloe for the Flora of Ethiopia, encountered many unnamed herbarium specimens of a species that was well known as the most abundant and conspicuous aloe in the southern part of the Ethiopian Rift Valley, and quite distinct from all other species of the genus. In the process of describing this species, it was realised that the name A. gilbertii had been used for material of this taxon by T. Reynolds but not validated. He was working on specimens growing at Kew that were collected and tentatively so named by one of us (P. E. B.), whose attention had been drawn to the species by M. Gilbert. Although the name A. gilbertii was not validly published by Reynolds, we would like to retain it here in recognition of the botanist M. Gilbert, who has devoted his life to working on the Flora of Ethiopia.
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