Heecopers non examinasi, Nueeccem Brande's 
. «ournal citavi. 
Os. This i plant has at length produced i x 
flowers for the first time in Europe, in the 
- 3815, in the Duke of Lytta's garden, at Jain 
ate, near eed and the superintendant of that. 
's a Sacs oer 
his 
ted correctly, 
gratefully; for we believe the name-will 
eventually stand ; although a paper in- Brande's 
Journal of the Arts and Séeiences has at. present 
norm itto the genus Agave. From Agave, how- 
we humbly presume its simple unigitto- 
fuctlited stigma, and peculiar bract 
not to mention its discrepancy of habit, and.re- 
volute corolla,——will sufficiently separate it. 
in the neighbouring genus .of -Lilium, 
a dist tinct tribe ; and | their, mere 
a 
- " 
* 
and Scilla ; .and even still m 
so in the still more contiguous Aloés, which Ax 
- "have hence been separated on the continent into 
-. Aloe, Gasteria, Haworthia, and Apicra. 
With us habit, although 1 É s ae £1 
ment as: edis mark.; and perhaps-no-good 
mpanied by som 
peculiari in its s inBorescence, however difficult 
it; may be for us to discover. [ndeed, it is.pro- 
3*bable no real genus exists containing species 
which exhibit. much. dissimilarity of appearance 
in their habit. And ma even a considerable 
difference in the inflorescenve, unaecompanied 
he re-volution of the .corolline lacinie distinct- : 
neces 
