/* ORNAMENTAL FOLUGE PLANTS. 



this plant forms a beautiful contrast with it. Native of 

 Mexico. 



A. americana variegata. — Another handsome plant. The 

 leaves are some six feet or more in length, and six or 

 •eight inches in breadth, dark green in the centre, broadly 

 margined with rich yellow, and armed on the edges and at 

 ■fche apex with stout spines. Native of Mexico. 



A. amaena. — A beautiful compact-growing, yet massive 

 plant. The leaves are thick and fleshy, some three feet 

 long, and from six to eight inches broad, armed at the 

 point with a formidable terete red spine, and at the edges 

 with large flat recurved ones the same colour ; leaves on 

 both sides rich fall green. The plant is also known by the 

 name of A. elegans in some gardens. Native of Mexico. 



A. applanata. — A compact-growing handsome plant, 

 the leaves of which are about a foot in length, broad, 

 and very thick and massive at the base, tapering to a 

 sharp point, where they are armed with a long and sharp 

 brown spine ; they are blue green in colour, bordered with 

 brown, and armed at the edges with brown spines. Native 

 ■of Mexico. 



A. aureoacantha. — ^A pretty compact-growing plant. The 

 Tosulate leaves are spathulate, and very glaucous, about 

 «ix inches in length and two and a half in breadth, the 

 apex and margins armed with golden spines. Native of 

 Mexico. 



A. Besseriana amcena. — This is an extremely rare plant, 

 bat without exception one of the very handsomest of the 

 small-growing set. The leaves are oblong, arranged in 

 a compact rosulate manner, about three inches in length, 

 and one in breadth ; stout, creamy white, armed at the 

 edges with broad brown spines, and terminated with a 

 stout black one an inch long ; the contrast of the creamy 



