
forms contained in his collection in a leisurely manner ; and he kindly 
also took me to a number of other gardens at Mentone, Monte Carlo, 
Bordighera, and San Remo. I also w vent with him to Genoa to see the 
magnificent botanical institute which he has recently founded there, 
and had the opportunity of going with Professor Penzig through the - 
Genoa hotanic garden. I worked for a day making notes upon the 
Salleation in the Jardin d’Acclimatisation at Hyéres, which, next to 
that of Mr. Hanbury, contains the largest series of forms on the Riviera. 
In the following paper I propose to give a complete list of the spe- 
cies which I sa saw growing in the open = which appeared to ku fully 
tion 
published in 1888, and for the Aloinee and Yuccoidee my paper in 
the 18th volume of the “Journal of Linnean Society," published in 
1880. 


Order AMARYLLIDEJE. 
Genus Agave, Linn. 
Group FILIFERÆ. 
4. fisfera, Salmdyck. Grown abundantly all along the Hd 
from Hyéres to Genoa, in a great variety of forms, flowering free It 
does not nodis materially from the plant of English oat deiecit l6 
is quite clea t A. Jilamentosa, Salmdyck, is a mere form of the 
same species 
. schidi era, Lemaire. La Mortola, just the plant of English con- 
servatories. It is very doubtful whether this is more than a variety of 
the last 

Group MARGINATÆ. 




A, lophantha, Schiede. Seen in various hens both the type Él 
A. cerulescens, Salmdyck, under a great variety of names, but not in 
flower. What is grown as : stenophylla” is not the po described under 
that name by Jacobi, but a form of this spec I do not think 
tophantha is really distinct specifically from A. vninitata Haworth, 
which has long green b with a pale band down the m 
. eylonacantha, Salmdyck. The true plant is grown at La Mortola, 
not differing materially from that of English conservatories; but I saw 
a great many others so called, which were wrongly determined. 
oka from the ids of Egli conservatories. A very curious mE 
Mortola, under the n of * A. Ville, Pirotti,” i is, I think, 
a very dwarf, ae form of ‘this species, identical with what has 
been called in "England « ‘A. Kerchovei inermis. 






