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anthers. This species has thrown up a sucker from its 

 base on each occasion of its flowering in this country, 

 ■which is unlike the habit of the generality of the species 

 belonging to the genus. It has been figured and named 

 A. dast/lirioides by mistake. Native of Mexico. 



A, densiflora. — Leaves spreading, moderately stout, some 

 "two or three feet in length, and four inches in breadth, 

 obovate-lanceolate in shape, sometimes, especially in a 

 young state, inclined to spathulate, dark green, termi- 

 nating in a stout dark red spine, and armed with small 

 closely set red or black ones at the edges. Native of 

 Mexico. 



A. Mlemetiana.' — Leaves stout, somewhat spathulate, and 

 recurved, from two to three feet long, four or five inches 

 across in the widest part, and deep green in colour. It 

 is a very handsome plant, and peculiar from being totally 

 unarmed either at the edges or at the apex. Native of 

 Mexico. 



A. ensiformis, — This is a beautifitl plant. The leaves 

 are very numerous and dense, from six to twelve inches 

 in length, scarcely half an inch in breadth, flat on the 

 upper side, rounded below, glaucous green in colour, plain 

 at the edges, but armed at the apex with a long bright 

 red spine. Native of Mexico. 



A, ferox. — ^Leaves spathulate, very thick and massive, 

 of a dark heavy green colour, and armed at the edges 

 and apex with stout dark brown spines. Native of 

 Mexico. 



A. filamemtosa, — The leaves of this plant are from one 

 to one and a half feet in length, and about one and a 

 half inches in breadth, tapering to a point, where they are 

 armed with a stout straight spine ; in colour they are 

 light green, quite unarmed at the edges, but clothed with 



