Refugium Botanicum.] [ February, 1869. 
TAB. 67. 
25. C. acavoiDEs (Baker). Acaulis, glabra, foliis dense rosulatis, per- 
crassis, ovatis, spinoso-aristatis, utrinque pallide glauco-viridibus 
papillosis demum paullulum rubro tinctis, ramorum floriferorum 
subnullis, floribus 4—6 in cymum laxum dispositis, bracteis per- 
parvis, pedicellis gracilibus elongatis, sepalis deltoideis ascendenti- 
bus eequalibus corolla aurantiaca 6-plo brevioribus. — EH. agavoides, 
Lemaire, Il, Hort. vol. x., Suppl. p. 78. 
Mexico. 
Glabrous, not at all caulescent. The leaves fifteen to twenty 
in a dense rosette, ovate, an inch and a half to two inches long 
by an inch broad half-way up, narrowed above to a rigid spiny 
point, the centre of the blade three-eighths of an inch thick, the 
upper surface slightly concave, the back much rounded, both 
sides a very pale glaucous-green, and distinctly reticulated with 
papilla, the old ones faintly tinged with red at the edge. 
Flowering branch eight to twelve inches long, slender, with only 
a very few small bract-like leaves. Flowers four to six in a 
sparse cyme. ‘The bracts linear, very minute. The pedicels half 
to three-fourths of an inch long. Calyx under one-eighth of an 
inch deep, the lobes deltoid, equal, ascending. Corolla orange, 
half to five-eighths of an inch deep, scarcely at all pentagonal. 
A very distinct species.—J. G. B. 
This is another species hitherto rare in collections, and diffi- 
cult of increase except by seeds. The plant requires much the 
same treatment as the last, and greatly resembles an Aloe of the 
section Haworthia, notwithstanding that it has been hkened to 
an Agave, whence its name. Il have raised the plant from 
Northern Mexican seeds, presented to me by H. Moberly, Esq. 
I am also indebted to the Royal Gardens at Kew for a plant of 
this interesting species.—W. W. 8. 
