Tas. 5163. 
FOURCROYA  FLAvo-viriDIs. 
Yellow-green Fourcroya. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACE®.—HEXANDRIA MOoNnoGyYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Perigonium corollinum, superum, deciduum, hexaphyllo-partitum ; 
foliolis equalibus, patentiusculis. Stamina 6, epigyna; filamenta basi cuneato- 
dilatata, sstivatione erecta, sub anthesi inclusa; anthere ovate, medio dorso 
affine, erectee. Ovarium inferum, triloculare. Ovuda plurima, in loculorum an- 
gulo centrali biseriata, horizontalia. Stylus triqueter, basi strumoso-incrassatus, 
subexsertus, cavus, apice pervius. Stigma obtusum, fimbriatum. Capsula co- 
riacea, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis. Semina plurima, plano-compressa.— 
Herbe in America calidiore cis equatorem indigene, longece, semel florentes ; 
caudice interdum giganteo, apice folioso; scapo terminali, paniculatim ramoso, 
multifioro. Endl. 
Fourcroya flavo-viridis ; acaulis, foliis pallide flavo-viridibus subsesquipedalibus 
bipedalibusve lanceolatis carnosis acuminatis subtortuosis spinosis, spinulis 
mediocribus falcatis, seapo subbiorgyali apice laxe racemoso-paniculato, 
floribus subaggregatis nutantibus 3 uncias longis, perianthio infundibuli- 
formi-hypocrateriformi, tubo viridi, limbo flavescente 4 uncias lato, stami- 
nibus limbi laciniis lanceolatis 3 interioribus latioribus brevioribus, fila- 
mentis infra medium valde dilatatis, stylo staminibus brevioribus basi 
erecto-trilobis. 
The brief account we have of Mourcroya tuberosa might be 
considered sufficiently to correspond with our present plant to 
justify us in attaching the name to it, were it not for the absence 
of a swollen base or rhizome from which the roots spring. We 
have plants that have not yet flowered, which in that particular 
better correspond with 7. tuberosa, and I am bound to consider 
a new species, which Mr. Repper sent, twelve or, fourteen years 
ago, along with Cereus senilis and other Mexican succulents, from 
Real del Monte. It may be considered a Fourcroya gigantea in 
miniature; the flowers however being quite as large and of the 
same structure as F. gigantea, already given in Bot. Mag., Tab. 
2250. 
Descr. ‘The root is coarsely fibrous, without stem or cau- 
dex. Leaves all radical, more or less spreading, and some- 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1860. 
