Tas, 6148. 
FOURCROYA Szttoa. 
Native of Guatemala. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEH.—Tribe AGAVE. 
Genus Fourcrora, Vent. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 181). 
Fourcroya Selloa ; caudice brevi robusto, foliis perplurimis dense confertis 
undique patentibus strictis 3-pedalibus carnoso-fibrosis anguste ensi- 
formi-lanceolatis supra basim angustatis attenuato-acuminatis margine 
remote spinosis, spinis incurvis mucroneque terminali tenui deciduo 
castaneis, utrinque supra basim subcarinatis, subtus asperis secus 
costam basim versus remote spinosis, scapo 15-20 pedali stricto remote 
bracteato, panicule ample laxe ramis erecto-patentibus, bracteis parvis 
ovato-lanceolatis viridibus, floribus pendulis 2-24 poll. diam. breviter 
pedicellatis, ovario parvo anguste oblongo, perianthii foliolis oblongis 
obtusis dorso fere albis intus viridibus late albo-marginatis, filamentis 
Giengelatr era perianthio multoties brevioribus, antheris parvis 
avis. 
F. Selloa, K. Koch in Wochenschrift, 8 jahrg., P- 22; Jacobi in Hamburg 
Garten Zeit., vol. xxii. p. 408, 
The plant here figured was named as above by General 
Jacobi on his visit to Kew some years ago (in 1865, I think). 
It is described in his monograph of the genus published in 
Otto’s Gartenflora in 1866 ; as also previously by Karl Koch, 
but from foliage only. Iam not aware that it has flowered 
anywhere but at Kew, where two individuals in the spring 
of last year sent up flowering scapes, which pushing rapidly 
upwards, were allowed to protrude through the roof of the Suc- 
culent House, and expanded in magnificent panicles in Sep- 
tember. They continued flowering till N ovember, and formed 
bulbils in the branches of the panicle as well as flowers. At 
the same time, three other fine plants of the same class 
flowered in the same house, and required exit through the 
roof—namely, Ayave americana and two specimens of Dasy- 
lirium acrotrichum. 
F. Selloa is a native of Guatemala, and has long been 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1875. 
