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2 A. Victorie-regine, Moore. Seen at La Mortola, not differing mate- 
. rially from the plant of English conservatories. ed. 
— A. Gheisbreghtii, Lemaire. Seen at La Mortola, not differing materially 
from the plant of eie conserv deii 
A, Hanburit, Baker, n. sp. A n true allied to A. Gheisbreghtii, 
seen in the Mortola collection, ande the name of A. heteracantha. 
It a sessile rosette, 8-9 inches in diameter, oblong rigid Very 
p^ — 4—5 inches long 2h inches diameter 2 = middle, with 
a very concave face, a pungent brown-black end-s narrow con- 
tinuous own border, and close spreading colorless “deltoid teeth, 
inch oe F — not. seen. 
a, Lemai Seen at La Mortola, not differing materially 
from the "plant of English conservatories. 

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Group SUBMARGINATAE, 
A, Deserti, Engelm. Seen only in an undeveloped state at La 
Mortola. 
A. Shawii, Engelm. Seen only in an undeveloped state at Hyéres. 
A. app lanata, Lemaire. A most striking species, which I saw all 
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acaulescent rosette, very rigid, oblong, very glaucous, eatin a length 
of 4-5 feet, and a breath of 4-6 inches at the middle ; base very convex, 
1j inches thick ; ; end-spine very large and pungent, decurrent along 
; the ook a third or half way down; teeth distant, deltoid-cuspidate, 
dark brown, 4-4 inch long. t flowers freely at Mortola and 
i Eo. with a peduncle 10 or 12 feet long. A. ae ioi ilis, Todaro 
ort. Bot. Pa . i 


fine m i rithout am 
ch had just flowered at Hyéres, I referred here. It had 30—40 very 
thick, rigid, bright green, ante 2 ad 3-4 feet long, 6-8 inches broad 
at 2 2 s a buie nogen iat re very broad deltoid- 
at Rew in 1889, and wa: imas ured in the Botanical Magazine, re 6589. 
, zosini, Hort. Hanbury. This, which i 0 most 
; striking plants in in Mr. Hanbury’s garden, was one of the thine which 
I was des dies to see, and I find that itis an undescribed species of this 
affinity, w ave never seen in any English collection. It has an 
-acaule Arg rosette of 30-40 oblong-spathulate leaves, which are as 
thoroughly and nest a as those of A. a; planata, reaching 
a length of 8-9 es and a te eadth of a foot at the middle, very rigid in 
vo with a s jn end-spine decurrent for about half a foot, 
ant dull tfo im hc = ees ÓÀ sr or straight teeth, 
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to nc 
: esco Franzosini, prender of the a Franzosini and a rich 
garden at Intra on the o Maggiore, which was rented for some years 
- by the late Si Haal, 
"d nagd Karw. Next to americana and rigida, this is the most 
ant of the Rivier era gardens, attaining a much mei 
lopment Sa it ever reaches at home. It may be recognised through 
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