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Coral Plant. (Jatropha multifida L.) 
Commonly cultivated in flower gardens. Native of South America. 
Other species are cultivated less frequently, as J. podagrica Hook. 
and J. hastata Jacq. 
Slipper Plant ; Arsenic Plant. (Pedilanthus tithymaloides Poit.) 
Leaves thick, fleshy, alternate, bright green; involucre red. <A 
poisonous West Indian shrub, often cultivated for its bright green 
foliage. 
Huphorbia candelabrum Trem. 
The large and fine specimen grown at Bishop’s Lodge is the 
parent of most of those cultivated on the islands. 
Spanish Bayonet. (Yucca uloifolia L.= Y. serrulata Haw.) 
Common in hedges and by roadsides ; sends up tall stalks, 10 to 
12 feet high, with spikes of white flowers, in May and June. 
Other species, including Y. jfilamentosa and Y. Whippleyi, are 
cultivated occasionally. 
Bitter Aloe ; Barbadoes Aloe. (Aloe vera L.= Aloe vulgaris Lam.) 
Formerly cultivated to a considerable extent for the commercial 
drug aloes. The collection of the drug is said to have proved 
unhealthful, and sometimes fatal, so that it was abandoned. 
Very common and quite naturalized. Flower-scapes 2 to 3 feet 
high ; flowers yellow, in racemes. 
Giant Aloe. (Furerea gigantea Vent.=Fourcroya gigantea, in 
Lefroy.) 
A large West Indian species, often cultivated. The fleshy leaves 
are entire, mucronate, arising from the top of a short, thick trunk ; 
flower-scapes 20 to 30 feet high, branched ; the flowers racemose, 
greenish white. 
Century Plant; Margay ; Golden Aloe. (Agave Americana L.) 
Numerous large plants were seen in old gardens and borders. The 
branched flower-scape is sometimes 20 to 30 feet high, and bears 
in early spring large numbers of yellow flowers, clustered at the 
ends of the branches. The stalks, when dry, are often locally called 
“bamboo,” 
Trans. Conn. Acap., Vou. XI. 42 JUNE, 1902. 
