Tab. 5660. 

 agave xylonacantha. 



Woody-tlwrned Agave. 



Nat. Ord. Amaktllide^:. — Hexa^dbia Monogynia. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5333.) 



Agave ocylonacantha ; acaulis, foliis subsquarroso-patentibus ensiformibua 

 aeummatis apice subtrigono pungente glaueis granulatis supra plnnius- 

 cuha subtus coiivexis ecarinatis estriatis, margine cartilagineo albo acu- 

 leis dilatatis siraplicibus v. fureatia instructo, scapo elato bracteis longe 

 setaceis numerosis instructo, racerao densifloro, pedunculis pedicellis- 

 que brevibu?, bracteolis subulatis, periauthii tubo brevissimo lobis 

 oblongis obtusis erectis viridibus ovario cylindrico aequilongis. C. 

 Koch, Wochenschr. 1861, p. 39. 



Agate xylonacantba. Salm-Dyck, in Bonplandia, v. 7. p. 92. Jacobi in 

 Otto, Hamburg. Garten- und Bhtvten-Zeitung, v. 20. p. 547. 



The ' Botanical Magazine ' seems especially adapted for 

 the publication of that noble class of plants that few can 

 afford to cultivate, and which seldom flower in cultivation, 

 but which are of equal interest to the scientific botanist and 

 to the horticulturist. Amongst these the Aloes and Agaves 

 hold, after the Palms, the place of honour, and their value 

 for decorative purposes is becoming yearly more apparent. 



The subject of the present Plate is a native of Real del 

 Monte, Mexico, whence it was sent to the Royal Gardens in 

 1846, by Mr. Repper, to whom the Gardens are indebted for 

 many fine plants. 



Descr. Stemless. Leaves spreading all round, two to three 

 feet long, three to five inches broad, thick, rigid, and succu- 

 lent, rough with minute granulations, but neither keeled, 

 striated, nor ribbed, plane above, convex beneath, glaucous- 

 green, ensiform-Ianceolate, gradually acuminate to the pun- 

 gent trigonous apex ; margin broad white, cartilaginous, beset 

 with flat-lobed, white, vertically compressed, simple or lobed 

 spinous processes, the lobes irregular, often uncinate. Scope 



AUGUST 1st. 18G7. 



