acquainted with while under the care of his father, whom he fuc- 

 ceeded in office. His father is allowed to have been very exafrly 

 acquainted with the plants of Miller, his cotemporary and 

 inftruftor ; and the refult of that acquaintance we obtain in the 

 place we have cited from the firft edition of the catalogue of 

 thofe gardens, to which work his name is prefixed. Here we muft 

 Teft the claims of our plant to fpecific identity with the original 

 lurida. In the fecond edition of the Hortus Kewenfis, the 

 character of " ftylo filamentis breviore" has been added fince 

 the publication of the firft. This has been done under the 

 impreflion that it was the fame with the lurida of Jacquin, 

 which had appeared meanwhile; but its being fo, upon a 

 comparifon of the figures that have been given of each, appears 

 to us impoffible. In that the inflorefcence is clofe and afcending, 

 the corolla nearly upright and twice final ler, the fegments linear- 

 ligulate or narrow oblong, blunt, tubularly connivent, ending 

 incurvedly, twice longer than the germen, and the ftyle con- 

 siderably fhorter than the ftamens, which are alfo far divergent. 

 Jacquxn fays, that his fpecies was known in the continental 

 gardens by the appellation of the Vera Cruz Aloe ,• and we fufpeft 

 that this circumftance decided with him its being the Kew lurida. 

 His plant feems to us to approach nearer to americana than ours, 

 which is nearer akin to the Fourcrgeje. We did not fee the 

 plant while in bloom, nor any part of the fpecimen from which 

 the drawing was made ; and can only learn from thofe that did, 

 that the flower-ftem was about twelve feet high, and that the 

 plant altogether made a very fine appearance. A native of 

 South-America. Requires to be kept in the dry ftove. L& e 

 its larger congeners, rarely known to bloflbm in our collections. 



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