78 ORNAMENTAL POLUGE PLANTS. 



long filameats. In general appearance this plant is very- 

 like tlie next species, but it appears to have longer and 

 more oblique leaves, which, are far less densely clothed 

 with filaments. When it blooms, it produces an erect 

 flower stem, some twelve feet in height. Native of 

 Mexico. 



A. filifera. — This is a more compact-growing plant 

 than the preceding. The leaves are erect, about a foot 

 in length, and an inch or an inch and a half in breadth, 

 tapering to a point, and armed with a stout brown spine, 

 dark green in colour, and densely clothed with broad 

 white filaments. A very handsome dwarf compact plant, 

 very suitable for even quite small conecti9ns. Native 

 of Mexico. 



A. foureroyoides. — This is one of the most distinct 

 species with which we are acquainted. The leaves are 

 erect, or but slightly spreading, fleshy, very glaucous, 

 about six feet in length, and three inches wide, tapering 

 to a point, where they are armed with a lotag brown 

 spine ; the base is broad and sheathing, and the edges 

 distantly armed with brown spines. Native of Mexico. 



A, Galeottii. — This is a very pretty species, with the 

 leaves arranged in a compact rosulate manner ; they are 

 fi-om six to twelve inches in length, and some three or 

 four in breadth, dark green, slightly glaucous, armed at 

 the edges and* apex with stout dark almost black spines. 

 Native of Mexico. 



A. gemiwfiora. — This plant is most erroneously named 

 in many gardens Bonapartea juncea, for Bona/partea is 

 a Bromeliaceous plant. It is also frequently found, and 

 more correctly, under the name of lAttcea gemmiflora ; but 

 we have included it with the Agaves, with which it is 

 generally associated. The leaves are smooth, narrow, un- 



