

Genus DaAs8YLIRION, Zucc. 


. All along the Riviera Dasylirions are a prominent feature in the 
gardens, and the soil and climate appear to suit them admirably. 
D. 
pasty recognised by the leaves breaking into a tuft of threads at the 
Ph, glaucophyllum, Hook. Like the last, grown all along the 
Riviera and flowers freely. Bonapartea € glauca and Dasylirion 
gracile glaucescens both represent the typica orm. onapartea 
gracilis, of the Hyéres garden, differs by its bright green leaves. . 
may be a distinct species, but I did not see it in flower. A plant grown 
at La Mortola as Dasylirion hybridum may be the same. What I saw 
called D. quadrangulatum was all glaucophyllum. In a plant seen in 
flower at Genoa the pedunete with the panicle reached a length of 
20 feet. 
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flower in a state of full perfection at Monte Carlo and again at Am 
It has a great tuft of 200-300 recurving rigid linear leaves, 3-6 fee 
long, not more than a quarter of an lei broad at. the middle, vetas 
: striated, slightly glaucous and co on both faces, scabrous on the 
^ ^ margin, not splitting up into ipei at the top. The peduncle is 
i 15-20 feet long, bearing, in its upper r half, dense spikes of minute whitish 
flowers in the axils of great scariose serrated lanceolate white bracts, 
Mr. Watson sent home specimens in fruit of the same plant two years 
m Hyéres. It may be D. quadrangulatum, S. Wats., in a state 
of full development. ` 
Genus Notrna, Michx. 


a, longifolia, Hemsley. Grown commonly all along the Riviera . 
; under the name of, Dasylirion longifoli um. I saw it in flower at 
|... Genoa - 
E. . recurvata, Hemsley. Not unfrequent in the Riviera gardens . 
, under ge names ire tard glauca and P. tuberculata. ‘The finest 
plant aw was in the garden of the Baroness vo von em at San - 
Remo, with a tk 6 feet in circumference at the 

Genus DRACÆNA, L. 
The only true Dracæna grown is D. Draco. I did not see any old . 
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Genus CORDYLINE; Com. 
he SO MUR Cordyline of the Riviera gardens is the New Zealand 
C. australis, Hook. fil, with leaves varying greatly in breadth and 
rigidity. did not see any trunks taller than those which we have in 
the iris house’ at Kew. All the plants I saw labelled indivisa 
were for f australis. At La Mortola I saw also plants vf the 
Aus alien C. stricta, Endlich. 


Tribe ALOINEZA, 

The Aloes were not in flower at the time of iny visit, with the ex- 
ception A A. ciliaris, Haw., which grows luxuriantly in ‘the open air. 
acrotrichum, Zucc. Grown everywhere and flowers freely, 


D. cough Hort. Hanbury. This I was very pleased to see in. b. 

