56 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
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Flowers axillary, with pentagonal solitary or twin peduncles, calyx glabrous; the tube one-third as 
long as the subulate segments, which are one-third shorter than the glabrous corolla ; limb of the 
corolla ciliate; stamens much exserted, hairy; style very short, included within the tube of the calyx. 
labrous shrub with round greenish stems and thick broadly lanceo ate stalked leaves, without evident 
veins, but having beneath a prominent purple costa, and a corresponding channel above ; the margin almost entire when 
ly grown, but having a landular teeth-like projections when ; four inches long, an inch and a half broad, on 
oung 
petioles half an inch long, deep green above (sometimes obscurely dotted with dull purple), dull reddish purple beneath, 
Flowers axillary, with minute bracts at the base of the glabrous distinctly pentagonal peduncles, which are longer than 
the petioles. Tube of the calyx prismatical, nearly as long as the peduncles, and three times shorter than the 
subulate segments of its limb, glabrous and purplish throughout. Corolla one-third longer than the calyx, the green tube 
widening upwards slightly curved, the limb oblique with roundish ciliated segments, marked within with three con- 
verging chocolate-brown bars, which meet within the border and form an angular figure on each segment. Stamens 
half as long again as the corolla, hairy above. Style half as long as the tube of the calyx, straight, the stigma forming a 
groove at the scarcely expanded apex. Ornamental owing to its coloured foliage. This is the Æ. atrosangwineus Hort. 
(not of Paxton's Bot. Diet., whieh is stated to have dark red flowers). It may also be the Æ. atropurpureus Hort. Van 
Houtte (Walp., Rep. V., 521), but the leaves in our plants are scarcely spotted except by accidental discoloration, and 
the flowers of Van Houtte’s plant are not described, 
522. /scuvNaNTHUS MARMORATUS. Leaves oblong-lanceolate (or obovate-lanceolate or ovate), 
widening upwards, and an oblique limb of roundish ciliated. Segments, the tube green, the limb blotched with chocolate- 
brown. Stamens much exserted, hairy in the upper part. Style nearly as long as the tube of the corolla, thickened and 
glabrous below, densely villous above, terminated by an expanded transversely grooved stigma, The marbled leaves 
give the plant an ornamental character. 
4E. purpurascens Hasskarll ; but, independently of other 
differences in the foliage and flowers, Æ. discolor is at once distingui d by it h 4 1 t 
its obsolete ealyx-tube. : a er ah a cet 
523. BESCHORNERIA TUBIFLORA. Kunth. (aliàs Foureroya tubiflora Kunth & Bouché.) An 
Aloe-like greenhouse perennial, belonging to Amaryllids. Flowers greenish-brown. Native of Mexico. 
R W, where it produced its Agave-like blossoms in a cool greenhouse 
intermediate 
be inte between Littea (Agave, sect. 2) and 
urcræa, differing from the latter in habit, from the former in its included stamens, and from both in tubular 
flower. Stemless Leaves radical, tufted, g and more or legs recurved, linear, sword-s , very much 
tooth or swelling, bearin -coloured, ovate 
membranaceous bractea. Pedicels shorter than the bractea, green, à 5 i es 9 da مسب‎ t ase. 
Perianth divided to the top of the ovary, into six green, s thulate, nearly equal segments (brownish-purple externally), 
erect and approximating into a tube, the apices only sp Stamens six, equal rather shorter than the 
rianth ; filame te; 
small, three-lobed.— Bor, Mag., t. 4642. 
524. Ecmivocacrus LONGIHAMATUS. Galeotti. A glaucous ribbed succulent plant with very 
long recurved spines and large yellow flowers. N ative of Mexico. Blossoms in July. 
A fine and handsome Species :—remarkable in the very i i i 
prominent ridges, the large and regularly arranged spines, 
the central one very long, flattened, and hooked at the end, and handsome in the size and colouring of its flowers, both 
in the bud and when fully expanded. It is a native of Mexico, and appears to have been introduced to our collections 
by M. Galeotti.— Bot. Mag., t. 4632 
