1870.] AGAVE HOEEIDA. ^ 43 
dark, chestnut-coloured spiny point, and armed along the deep maroon-brown 
margins with large and somewhat irregular, hooked, dark-coloured thorns. The 
variety Icevior (fig. 2) has rather longer and narrower leaves, of a pale green, with 
fewer and more slender marginal thorns, the margins, thorns, and terminal spines 
being, moreover, chestnut-coloured, changing to a silver grey. Both are free 
growers, and are decided acquisitions amongst plants of this character. 
