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the Temperate house at Kew. All the plants I saw labelled indivisa 
were forms of australis. At La Mortola I saw also plants of the 
Australian C. stricta, Endlich. 
Tribe ALOINEZ. 
The Aloes were o not in as at the time of my visit, with the ex- 
vera, Linn., but the VA A. afr icana, a supralevis, and A. ar 
escens and its variety frutescens. A. striata, Haw. (A. albocincta, H Ae Ji 
and its variety A. hanburyana, Naudin, are also a a I saw also 
at La Mortola A. purpurascens, the typical A. ferox, A. Bainesii 
(young stems only), and A. plicatilis. Of the rani species A. 
case with A. heteracantha, Baker, which is not yet known in flower. A 
caulescent species, grown at ’ Mortola, allied to A. arborescens, 
with a dense tuft of lanceolate leaves 7-9 inches long, margined with 
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undescribed. [This has since been described in Gardeners 
Srpen 1892, vol. i., p. 780, under the name of Aloe aurantiaca, 
Penzig has lately introduced from Abyssinia to the 
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r ariegata, and 
as some curious varieties of Stand sabe and humilis, ewes ek 
different from anything I have seen at home. He grows man 
pic 
Haworthias, and Gasterias, none of which i i nfatone ee Py nae 
from what we poke at he i gery ią, called multipunctata, with 
glossy lora s 1-1} fe with o — immersed greenish- 
white blotches, is Seabees an yarn er specie 
Order BROMELIACE. 
The species which are hardy on the Riviera are Tillandsia i 
Pui cag gigas, Hechtia Gheisbreghtii, Dyckia brevifolia (grown under the 
na f D. Mazelii), and D. rariflora (grown under the an of D. 
noitia: 
It is quite evident that the climate and soil of the Riviera are ad- 
mirably fitted for the pae of a large ety of these plants. As 
clima My best thanks are due to Mr. Hanbury for his kindness ap 
the trouble which he took to help me in every way ; and to his principal 
garde 
ronemeyer and s to whom, during my stay, I was 
constantly applying for informatio 
J. G. BAKER. 
Herbarium, Kew. 
December 17, 1891. 
