242 AMARYLLIDACEJE. [AGAVE. 



A. amerlcana, Linn. Sp. PL (ed. /), t, 323 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3654 ; 

 D. & P. 1. c. under B. page 84 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 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. I. 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 ; tsrminal 

 spine about } in. long, dark- coloured. 



A. Vera-Cruz, Miller Gard. Diet. (ed. 8), No. 7 ; D. & P. I. c. 



(under D) p. 86. A. lurida Zucc. ; Baker in Gard. Chron. N. S. viii 



(1.877), 264 excl. var. Jacquiniana and ref. A. Vera-Crueis, HUW* 



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. DISTRTB. : naturalized 



throughout S. 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 



