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lanceolate, 6-8 in. long, 13-21 lines broad above the dilated base, 

 narrowed gradually to a rather obtuse point, which is tipped by a 

 pungent black spine -| in. long, which has usually 1-2 small deltoid 

 teeth on each side of it, dead green, margined with a continuous 

 white border which leaves distinct vertical bands where it is pressed 

 against the neighbouring leaves. Peduncle 4 ft. long. Spike dense, 

 cylindrical, 6 ft. long. Mower greenish-yellow, 1^ in. long ; tube 

 very short ; segments oblong-lanceolate, ^ in. long. Stamens three 

 times the length of the segments. 



Hab. Mexico, near Monterey, first brought to Europe by M. Considerant 

 in 1872. Flowered for the first time at the Cambridge Botanic Garden, Boston, 

 U.S.A., in the autumn of 1882, the plant having been brought from Monterey 

 by Dr. Palmer. A most distinct and remarkable species. 



17. A. Vanderwinneni Jacobi, Nacht. 19. — Acaulescent. Eosette 

 5 ft. broad and nearly 3 ft. high. Leaves numerous, oblong- 

 spathulate, 2-2|- ft. long, 6-7 in. broad at the middle, dull opaque, 

 green, not vittate, banded and glaucescent on the back, with a long 

 pungent end- spine and a continuous straight grey-brown edge, and 

 remote regular large deltoid-uncinate brown teeth. Inflorescence 

 unknown. 



Hab. Probably Mexico. Described from the Belgian collections in 1868. 



18. A. Demeesteriana Jacobi, Monogr. 218. — Shortly caule- 

 scent. Leaves very rigid, lanceolate-spathulate, nearly 2 ft. long, 

 3| in. broad at the middle, narrowed to 2f in. above the base, 

 opaque, glaucous green, not vittate, furnished with broad transverse 

 deeper-coloured and paler bands, the end-spine short but pungent, 

 the margin distinct, narrow, horny, repand, with broad small teeth. 

 Inflorescence unknown. 



Hab. Probably Mexico. Described by Jacobi from the Belgian collections 

 in 1865. 



19. A. [LittcBa) Henriquesh Baker in Grard. Chron. 1887, i. 

 732, fig. 70. — Acaulescent. Leaves oblong- lanceolate, rigid, bright 

 green, 2 ft. long, 5 in. broad at the middle, puugent at the apex, 

 with a continuous broad brown edge, with copious deltoid -cuspidate 

 prickles I Id. long, with a very broad base, which are sometimes 

 geminate. Peduncle including inflorescence 13-14 ft. long. Spike 

 dense, longer than the peduncle. Ovary an inch long ; tuba very 

 short ; segments linear, dark brown. Stamens more than twice as 

 long as the narrow segments. 



Hab. Probably Mexico. Described from a plant that flowered at the 

 Botanic Garden of Coimbra, May, 1887, from material supphed by its Director, 

 Prof. Henriques. 



20. A. [Littcm) Haynaldi Todaro, Hort. Bot. Panorm. 88, t. 24. 

 Leaves 30-40 in a dense rosette, rigidly coriaceous, dark green, 

 a yard long, 4-5 in. broad at the middle, narrowed to 2|-3 in. 

 above the base, with a pungent brown end-spine an inch long, 

 margined contniuously with grey brown, furnished with copious 

 irregular middle-sized much-hooked prickles. Peduncle including 

 the spike about 25 ft. long, the former short. Flower green, 2 in. 

 long; tube scarcely any; segments oblong, an inch long. Fila- 

 ments 2^-3 in. long. 



