( 1975 ) 
Autor rerox. Great Hence-nog Aton. ~ 
JE HEH HORER ER 
Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cor. erecta, ore patulo, fundo nectarifero. Filam. recep- 
taculo inserta, | 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
_ Aor ferox; caule arborescente foliis, perfoliatis undequaque 
4 spinosis, staminibus corolla duplo longioribus. Pl. Grass. 
: 32. Hort. Kew. ed alt. 2. p. 293. Persoon Syn. 1. p. 
378. Lam. Encyel. 1. p. 87. | 
ALor ferox ; foliis ovato-cuneiformibus rigidiusculis glaucis ; 
paginis precipue inferiore regulariter spinosissimis. 
nee in Lin. Soc. Tr. v.7, p. 21. Ejusd. succulent. 
p. 10. a 
Alor perfoliata 3. ferox ; foliis amplexicaulibus nigricantibus 
wee spinosis. Hort, Kew. ed. I. 1. p. 467. Mill. 
Ator africana caulescens, foliis glaucis caulem amplectenti- 
bus. Commel. prelud. p. 70. t. 19? 
_. The Great Henee-Hoe Atoz is a very old inhabitant of 
our greenhouses, and is the loftiest of the whole genus, 
sometimes reaching, Mr. Haworrs says, to the height of 
_tearly twenty feet. But although there are many old plants — 
_™ the country, it has been very rarely known to flower ; so 
rarely, that we do not remember to have heard any one say 
_ that ‘they had seen it in this state, nor does it appear that 
even Mr. Haworrtu himself, who has paid so much attention 
__ to this tribe of plants, had ever seen it in blossom at the time 
of his last publication. ‘The Hortus Kewensis fixes April May 
