I find that all Boissier’s species of that region are main- 
tained, and several added, amounting to no fewer than 
thirty-four species in all, which, whether all specifically 
different or not, are classified with great skill and judg- 
ment, so that it is not difficult to determine these by his 
clavis. Amongst those of both works is A. latifolia. It 
is very difficult to distinguish it by the descriptions from 
the common 4. plantaginea of Western Europe, than 
which itis a much more robust plant, with usually broader 
leaves and more numerous nerves, larger heads, more 
coriaceous bracts, and longer pedicels and calyx lobes. 
There are excellent specimens of it in the Kew Herbarium, 
from Sir Walter Trevelyan, Welwitsch, and others, 
gathered in the neighbourhood of Lisbon. In some of 
these the leaves attain three-fourths of an inch in breadth, 
being shorter, broader and more acuminate than in the 
plant here figured, and the sheath below the head is longer. 
The character of leaves remotely denticulate given by 
Boissier and Willkomm and Lange, is very obscure in some 
_ Specimens, and non-existent in others. 
I should observe here that the A. Cephalotes of this 
work, t. 4128 (not of Link.) under which A. latifolia is 
erroneously entered as a synonym, is referred by Boissier 
to the Algerian A. mauritanica, Wallr. This being s0, 
the figure of the calyx is very faulty, in wanting the spur 
of that species. 
According to Miller, A. latifolia was in cultivation in 
his garden before 1740, and it has been repeatedly intro- 
duced into England at intervals subsequently. The 
Specimen here figured flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, 
in April, 1893, having been received from those of 
Edinburgh.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower and top of pedicel: oe 
4, ovary :—AUl enlarged. p Of pedicel; 2, petal and stamen; 3; stamen; 
