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249 _ AMARYLLIDACES. * [Acave. 
A. americana, Linn. Sp. Pl. (ed. I), i, 323 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3654; 
D. & P. I. c. under B. page 84; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 754. 
The American Aloe. Planted in parks and large gardens throughout 
India, but not naturalized, nor grown for its fibre. Outside India 
it is cultivated as an ornamental plant in gardens in N. Europe and 
N. America. Its native country is not known. The plant widely 
naturalized and commonly termed A. americana in S. Europe, is 
believed by D, & P. to be A. Vera-Cruz of Miller.—Trunk prostrate 
or ascending ; leaves deep-green often variegated with white or pale- 
yellow stripes or borders, sometimes rather glaucous; marginal 
prickles mostly pointing downwards; terminal spine, dull-brown, 
1-2 in. long ; perianth-lobes obtuse, amber-coloured. 
A. sp. (c), D. & P.l. c. page 85.— 
Considered to be closely allied to A. Vera-Cruz, Miller. It was formerly 
cultivated in the Saharanpur Bot. Gard. under the erroneous name of 
A. Jacquiniana. The plant was sent to Saharanpur from Europe 
but its native country is not known. The freshly cut leaves smell 
like rhubarb stalks, and their juice-soon ferments.—Leaves oblong- 
linear from a very thick caudex, dark-green, glaucous; tips stiffly 
recurved ; blade 6 ft. long or more and 8-12 in. at the widest part 
some way above the middle and there forming a deep trough by the 
bending of the leaf and the inward rolling of the margins; prickles 
very stout and black, those above the trough-like portion of the leaf 
spreading or ascending, the rest pointing downwards; terminal 
spine about ? in. long, dark-coloured. 
A. Vera-Cruz, Miller Gard. Dict. (ed. 8), No.7; D. & P. 1. c. 
(under D) p. 86. A. lurida Zucc. ; Baker in Gard. Chron. N. 8. viii 
(1.877), 264 excl. var. Jacquiniana and ref. A. Vera-Crueis, Haw, 
A. Cantula, Prain Beng. Pl. 1057 (not of Roxb.).— 
The common Grey Aloe of India.—Cultivated in Bot. Gardens from 
Calcutta as far as Lahore, also planted in hedges throughout the 
greater portion of India, and sometimes on the sides of railways, 
and it is said to be naturalized in Mysore. DrstTRrp.: naturalized 
throughout 8. Europe, in S. France and Mediterranean Islands, 
also in N. W. Africa and the Atlantic Islands (not recorded from S. E. 
Europe or the Orient). Extending to S. Africa, Mauritius and Ceylon. 
Its native country is probably Mexico.—Leaves linear-oblong, many 
from a short stout trunk which is hidden by their thickened bases, 
Sage-green and often very glaucous, early curving upwards, the- 
ends usually more or less recurved or drooping, 4-6 ft. long, often 
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