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Plants which I saw labelled ralapensis, chiapensis, densa, and cubensis 
were all Set state forms. 
. densiflora, Hook. After seeing the wild range of pona 
forms feat describe: I cannot now separate densiflora as a spec 
Group STRIATA. 
A. striata, Auce. Frequent in the Riviera, with a range of variation 
similar to what we know already at home. Here belong the plants 
ogi Bonapartea rigida, B. str a and B. hystrix; but what 
called Sig sir "a gracilis and B. gracilis glauca really belong to 
the genus Dasy 
As ubedi, Takk Had just flowered at La Mortola, A. deal- 
bata, Lemaire, is substantially identical with Jacobi’s plant. 
Group INTEGRIFOLIA. 
A. Houlletii, Jacobi. As already stated this cannot remain in this 
pate but is A. rigida, var. sisalana, in an imperfect state of develop- 
sates GEMINIFLOR A. 
A. geminiflora, Gawl. Is grown at La Mortola under the name o 
Skies gemini ‘flor “a. This ioo not pipi materially from the lait of 
English conservatories. 
Group ALOID. 
a celsiana, Hook. Seen at Hyères only, just like the form grown 
at 
A. mitis, Salmdyck. Gets better ae at =e Mortola than any 
I have seen in England. Shortly caulescent ; leaves lanceolate, 2 feet 
long, 4 inohes broad at the middle, green, with a slight glancons ‘tinge ; ; 
tip small not pungent ; teeth very minute, coloured brown in the sun, 
A. albicans, he Seen at La Mortola only. I do not think it 
can stand as more than a glaucous leaved variety of A. micracantha. 
A. o ae Salmdyck. Seen at La Mortola in a young state. 
Group ATTENUATZ. 
A. elemeetiana, Jacobi. A plant seen at La Mortola, agreeing well 
with what we have at Kew 
A. attenuata, Sahintyer: Has lately flowered at La oe with a 
cernuous spike 8-9 feet long, and a peduncle about half as lon 
Group YUCCAHFOLIA. 
A. yuccefolia, DC. Seen both at Hyères and La Mortola, flowering 
freely and better developed than we get it in England. Leave s linear, 
3 feet long, 14 inches broad at the middle, tapering guy to a long 
point not pungent at the apex, obscurely serrulate on the marzin. 
Peduncle wand-like, 4-5 feet long, with on nlya few distant smal] scariose 
bract-leaves, linear from A broad ba ase. Spike dense, 3 feet long. 
ths things that interested me most at La 
i in full perfection an Agave which cannot 
be anything else than this species, which was described by Cavanilles 
