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white leaves and dark spines is very remarkable and 

 pleasing. Native of Mexico. 



A, Bess&riana oandida. — ^Leaves stout, oblong, compactly 

 arranged in a rosulate manner, and milky green, some six 

 inches long and one inch broad, armed at the point with 

 a dark brown spine an inch in length, and with a few 

 smaller ones at the edges ; a larger-growing plant than 

 the variety amcena, not so creamy white in colour, but 

 very distinct, and equally beautiful in its own way. Native 

 of Mexico. 



A, Oeliiana. — A beautiM species, the stem of which 

 scarcely rises off the surface of the ground. The leaves are 

 from one to two feet long, obovate-lanoeolate, tapering to a 

 sharp point, and having the margins armed with numerous 

 short brown spines. The colour of the leaves is a very 

 pale glaucous green, rendering the plant a conspicuous 

 object in a collection of succulents. Native of Mexico. 



A. coooinea. — The leaves of this species are very massive 

 at the base, which separates them widely, and gives to the 

 plant a somewhat thin appearance ; they are recurved, 

 some two or three feet in length, and about three iaches 

 in breadth, of a deep heavy green, and armed at the 

 margins and apex with red spines ; the latter are very 

 formidable, being often three inches long. Native of 

 Mexico. 



A. coccmea hrevifolia. — This differs from the preceding 

 in its shorter leaves, which seldom exceed eighteen or 

 twenty-four inches in length, and some five or six in 

 breadth ; they are thick and fleshy, very dark green, and 

 armed at the apex and margins with stout reddish brown 

 spiues; Native of Mexico. 



A. Oorderoyi. — Leaves erect, about a foot long, and an 

 inch broad, armed at the apex with a very stout dark brown 



