Agave from Mrs. M‘Donald, of Honduras (which accompanied 
the noble-flowered Cereus Macdonaldia, Bot. Mag. t. 4707); 
and this, upon flowering in our Palm-house, in the autumn of 
1858, corresponded in every particular with the figured descrip- 
tion of Jacquin. That Ayave, Schultes, in accordance with the 
views expressed by Mr. Gawler, has named Agave Jacquini- 
ana. The fruit too, which is now (Jan. 1859) fully formed, pre- 
cisely accords with that figured in the ‘Collectanea Botanica, 
and that fruit is not a little remarkable, being exactly urceolate, 
with a very contracted neck. 
The above remarks may serve as a substitute for any long or 
tedious description. : 
Duscr. Stem ascending, a foot and a half high, scarred with 
the remains of fallen leaves. The perfect leaves form a crown, 
and are from two and a half to three feet long, narrow-lanceolate, 
pungently acuminate, spreading in all directions, the superior 
and younger ones erect, the middle ones horizontal, the infe- 
rior ones reflexed, remotely dentato-spinose with curved spines. 
Scape about twelve feet long, stout in proportion, quite erect, 
firm and rigid, almost scaly with withered bracteas. Panicle 
compound. Pedicels stout, dichotomously divided. lowers 
geminate or ternate, bracteolate, some quite sessile. Perianth 
quite green, little more than two inches long; the tubular portion 
1s oblong-oval, six-furrowed ; the free portion, or sepals, more than 
half as long again as the tube, linear-oblong, channelled, obtuse, — 
quite erect, and connivent, pressing as it were against the yellow, 
much exserted stamens ; these stamens are twice as long as the 
sepals, spreading. Anthers very large, full-yellow, versatile. Style 
_ as long as the filaments. Stigma obscurely three-lobed. Fruit, — 
or capsule, when fully formed, an inch and a half long, urceolate, — 
almost black when ripe, with a very contracted neck, three- 
ett three-valved, containing in each cell several black angular — 
eeds. : 
Fig. 1. Flowering plant, ona y 
] plant, ery reduced scale. 2. Apex of a leaf, nat. size 
3. Portion of a panicle, with flowers also, nat. size. 4. Snes and style, after 
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a ag have fallen away. 5. Transverse section of the same :—slightl; 
