294 Albany Museum Records. 



Leaves usually glaucous, at the base strongly convex on the lower 

 surface, slightly or (more frequently) strongly concave above, 

 marginal spines not very close together, inflorescence dense, 

 bracts always very broad. Habit usually very bushy. 



A. arhorescens, Mill, 



[Since writing these notes one of my assistants, Miss M. Daly, 

 pointed out to me that one of oar phints of A. succotrina. Lam- 

 (until recently typically A. pluridens Haw.) has several suckers 

 ill which tlie leaves var,y to an extraordinary degree. Some have 

 quite smooth margins, in others there are a few marginal prickles 

 irregularly placed, but smaller than usual, others again have a few 

 small prickles at the base, and are smooth higher up. I shall try 

 to find out whether these characters are permanent.] 



51 (323). A. i<jjeciosa, Bak., extends to Pearston, where it was 

 found by Dr. Broom. 



57 (325). A. tialin-Dyckiana, Schult. til. — ^Cuttings from the 

 plants in Capetown referred to on p. 44: of these "Records " have 

 been grown by me in the Museum grounds, and have flowered 

 during the past two winters. Tiiey agree well with cuttings 

 received under the same name from Mr. Alwin Berger, La Mortola, 

 which have also flowered. I do not know what size they may 

 reach ultimately, but in both cases, instead of growing after the 

 manner of A.Jerox, which the plant does in Capetown, and which 

 one would expect from the description in the Flora Capensis, 

 they have branched very copiously after the mannner of A . 

 arborescens {A. natalensis. Wood et Ev.), as figured by Wood in 

 " Natal Plants," IIL t. 258. I have noticed the same lately in 

 several plants of ^4. succotrina, Lam. (A, pluridens, Haw.), which 

 as a rule, grows with a clean unbranched stem to a considerable 

 length, and which I had never seen in the wild state to assume a 

 bushy growth. 



The plant figured as A. Thraslcii, Bak. in '■'■Icones Horti Tlien- 

 ens'is,''' Tom. IL pi. GO, appears to be this species. As grown in 

 the Capetown Botanical Gardens its superficial resemblance to 

 A.ferox-d.xn\. its allies are very deceiving, in fact I do not see 

 why it has been placed in a different subgenus. 



