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AGAVE GLAUCESCENS. 
Glaucescent Agave. 
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* Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDE®.—HEXxaNnDRIA MonoGynta. 
Gen. Char. Perigonium corolinum, superum, infundibuliforme, persistens, 
limbi sexpartiti laciniis subeequalibus. Stamina 6, tubo perigonii inserta; fila- 
menta filiformia, eestivatione inflexa, sub anthesi exserta; anther@ lineares, ver- 
satiles. Ovarium inferium, triloculare. Ovula plurima, in loculorum angulo 
centrali biseriata, horizontalia, anatropa. Sfylus filiformis, exsertus, cavus, 
apice pervins; stigma capitato-trigonum. Capsula coriacea, trigono-triquetra, 
trilocularis, loculicide trivalvis. Semina plurima, plano-compressa; testa char- 
tacea, marginata ; raphe laterali, umbilicum prope basin Jateralem chalaze sub- 
apicali jungente. Lmbryo cylindricus, axilis, albuminis carnosi longitudine, ex- 
tremitate radiculari umbilicum spectante.—Herbee acaules v. caulescentes, inter- 
dum gigantee, longeve, vel semel florentis, in America tropica et subtropica cis 
@quitorem indigena, quadam nunc a mortalibus late diffuse ; foliis radicalibus car- 
nosis, interdum maximis, marginibus spinosis ; floribus in scapo radicali bracteato 
paniculatis numerosissimis, Endl. 
AGavE glaucescens ; caule elongato crasso, foliis crassissimis 2-3-pedalibus 
glaucis spathulato-lanceolatis marginatis integerrimis apice longe spies 
centibus supra concaviusculis subtus valde convexis, scapo bipedali copiose — 
subulato-bracteato, spica caudiformi crasso densiflora cernuo scapo qua- 
druplo longiore demum copiose viviparo, floribus in bracteis subulatis age 
_ gregatis pedicellatis, pedicellis brevibus basi bracteolatis, ovario cylindraceo, 2 
tubo brevi contracto, limbi laciniis linearibus, staminum filamentis longitu- 
dine perianthii, stylo longiore. 3 
AGave glaucescens. Hort. Kew. 
Of the fine and in many species stately genus Agave, no less 
than sixty-four species are enumerated and attempted to be cha- — 
racterized in Professor Koch’s ‘ Wochenschrift des Vereines zur — 
Beforderung des Gartenbaues in den kéniglich Preussischen : 
Staaten,’ ete., for 1860, chiefly from garden plants, and too often — 
plants whose flowers,are unknown. ,We do not find among 
them one which accords with our present individual, which has. 
been cultivated in the Succulent House at Kew, where it was 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1862. 
