Tas. 5097. 
AGAVE JacqQuiniana. 
Jacquin’s Agave. 
“Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEH.—HeExanpRIA MonoGynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4934.) 
caulescens, foliis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis crassiuscu- 
lis remote dentato-spinosis, spinis curvatis, scapo 10-12-pedali bracteato, 
florum fasciculis densis, perianthii viridis tubo (cum ovario adnato) tereti- 
oblongo 6-sulcato, limbi laciniis lineari-oblongis erectis 1n tubum subconni- 
ventibus canaliculatis obtusis, filamentis sepala plus quam duplo excedentibus 
stylum quantibus, capsula urceolata obtusa trigona, panicula demum 
sobolifera. 
Acave Jacquiniana. Schulé 
p. 827. a 
Agave lurida. Jacq. Coll. v. 4. p. 94. #.1, (excl. syn.) Salm-Dyck, Hort. 1834, 
p. 302. - 
AGave Jacquiniana ; 
es, Syst. Veget. 7. p. 121. Kunth, En. Plant. v. 5. 
The true Agave lurida of Hortus Kewensis, ed. 1. v. 1. p. 472, 
and ed. 2. v. 2. p. 302, is figured and described by Mr. Gawler 
(Bot. Mag. t. 1522) from the original Kew plant, which has 
since died. This is the Agave Vera-Cruz of Miller, Gard. Dict. 
ed. 8. n. 7; and Mr. Gawler has accurately pointed out the dif- 
ferences between this plant and the dyave lurida of Jacquin 's 
‘Collectanea Botanica,’ v. 4. p. 92. t. 1. _ In the original Agave 
lurida the flowers are lax and distant, twice the size of those of 
Jacquin’s Agave; the tube (with the adnate ovary) 1s ~ 
elongato-cylindrical, constricted above the base, longer than 
sepals, which are broad-lanceolate, acuminate, concave, and spread- 
ing; the filaments of the stamens are quite erect, and green as 
well as the anthers. Jacquin’s Agave has densely crowded 
flowers, the ovary six-furrowed, shorter than the sepals, which 
latter are quite erect and almost connivent, the stamens are 
spreading and yellow, and the peduncles are soboliferous or 
viviparous. About ten or twelve years since, we received an 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1859. 
