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length, very stiff and harsh in texture, spreading, and 

 recurved at the apex ; pinnse numerous, linear-lanceolate, 

 from four to six inches in length, and one in breadth, 

 somewhat erect, ending iu a short, sharp, brown spine, and 

 dark bright green in colour. In young plants the pinnse 

 are sometimes toothed, but this is a character which dis- 

 appears with age. This species is sometimes found in 

 collections under the name of JS?. longifoliiis. . Native of 

 South Africa. 



Ti. Ohellineldi. — As a small plant, this is perhaps one 

 of the most handsome of the genus, but what character 

 it may assume with age, or to what, height it attains, we 

 are unable to say. In our gardens it has a somewhat 

 stout base, which is furnished with woolly scales ; the 

 leaves are ,pinnate, erect, spreading out from about the 

 middle, from two to four feet in height ; pinna very narrow, 

 linear, and, as well as the petioles, densely clothed with a 

 short grey tomentum, the whole plant being destitute of 

 spines. It is a most desirable species. Native of South 

 AiErica. 



Tl. Jiorridus, — This is a remarkable and formidable-look- 

 ing plant. The stem is stout and short ; leaves pinnate, 

 from two to six feet in length, erect, and turned back 

 abruptly at the top ; pinnse about four inches in length, 

 armed at the point with a long and very sharp brownish 

 white spine. In some forms of this plant the iuferior 

 margin of the pinnffi is also armed with two similar spines, 

 and then it is sometimes called E, horridus irispinosus. 

 Whole plant blue green, and very harsh in texture. Native 

 of South Africa, 



E. lanuginosus. — A noble-growing plant, but we have 

 hitherto been unable to find the reason for its name, 

 which may, however, apply to the cone, which we have 



