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D. glaucophyllum, Hook., was in flower at Hyéres ; the planis exactly 
known 
like that now bearing a a spike in the Kew collection. It is in 
the Riviera as D. glaucum and Bonapartea glauca. D. gram in fidius 
ucc. is an elegant little | species with searcely any stem an 
Zucc., i 
narrow spiny leaves. A distinct looking species, unnamed. with — 
narrow, rigid, entire leaves and flower-spikes 5 feet high, was represented 
- by numerous plants at Hyéres 
D. quadrangulatum, S. Wats. —This is the plant often known as 
WARME hastilis. It is also, I believe, the Agave striata, var. 
recurva, of B iket. In the garden of the Acclimatisation Society at 
Hyères. there is a fine example which was in flower at the time of my 
visit; ıt was named Xanthorrhea hastilis. The foliage and habit 
d Agave striata, var. recurva; a provisional name, the pla 
never having flow ecimen at Hy re a spike 18 feet 
hi e upper half clothed with adpressed branches brown 
gh, , 
trigonous, seed-like flowers, not unlike those of a female D. glaucophyl- 
wm. ‘There isa plant of this so-called Xanthorrhea hastilis at Kew, 
which came from the Jardin Rd aris. Xanthorrhea 
proper is Australian, and has an inflorescence somewhat like a bull- 
In the pes at Mag Carlo there is a fine exam in. 7 x 
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Yucca. 
A magnificent group of large plants of Y. sh gie in a garden at 
Villa Valetta is one of the most striking and novel of the many effects 
obtained in this garden. The height of the Jt kodar 15 feet, 
and many of them are branched. The bases of the dead leaves have 
been left on the stems, and they have curled m become a de light 
brown colour. 'The gaunt stems, their ei dark green spear- 
leaves, and the strange effect produced by the o a leaf bases presented 
a picture peculiarly zean A large iets of tall plants of the 
variegated f res was almost as effective. the Yuccas 
appear to be ezip onal happy under the conditions supplied on the 
iviera. 
The most striking kinds are as follows :— 
Y. aloifolia, Linn. and its variegated form. 
F. constricta, Buckley.—.A. plant in Mr. Hanbury’s gi under 
the name of Y. elata marginata is probably this species. 
Y. cedit in habit. but the leaves are shorter. Itisa pistes little 
plan e garden name may be accounted for Ms the fact that 
decorative plan 
¥; Jilifera, kis —A magnificent specimen at Villa Valetta, so 
a stem 3 feet in diameter at the bese ; another at Antibes is almost 
large. This — is said to attain a height of 50 feet, and its iid 
is a good figure of tis Eea ia Yucca in the Gardener’s Chronicle, 
June Mies p. 743, fi 
guatem aker. des variable species, and apparently some 
- of its forms have received garden names. I consider the following to 
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