Tap, 6160. 
FOURCROYA vUNnDULATA. 
Native of Mezxico. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AGAVE. 
Genus Fourcroya, Vent. ;—(Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 181). 
Fourcroya undulata; caule brevissimo, foliis paucis sesquipedalibus dia- 
metro bipollicaribus ensiformibus patentibus rigidis longe acuminatis,, 
apicibus spinulisque marginalibus subremotis castanels supra basim 
dilatatam contractis, superne plano-concavis, subtus scabris obscure 
carinatis, marginibus subundulatis, utrinque opacis olivaceo-viridibus 
non glaucis, spinulis e basi deltoidea incurvis, scapo gracili stricto una 
cum panicula 10-pedali, bracteis paucis subulatis, panicula elongata 
stricta pubescente, ramis brevibus strictis erecto-patentibus, floribus 
2-nis pendulis viridibus, bracteolis minutis, pedicellis brevibus, ovarlo 
pubescente elongato-subcylindraceo, perianthii foliolis anguste oblongis 
obtusis, stylo brevi subulato. 
Fourcroya undulata, Jacobi Nachirtige Versuch. Systemat. Ordnung Agavee, 
p: 59. 
Though in many respects so similar to F. Selloa, figured in 
last month’s number of this work, this is a remarkably diffe- 
rent species, much smaller in all its parts, apparently never 
forming a stem, and with the leaves broader for their length, 
and more or less undulated at the margin; its spines also are 
more hooked. It is a native of the provinces of Chiapas and 
Tabasco in Mexico, where it was found by the traveller 
Giesbrecht, who sent it to Verschaffelt’s splendid establish- 
ment in Ghent (now incorporated with the no less celebrated 
Brussels’ one of Linden). The Kew specimen, which is here 
figured, flowered in the Royal Gardens in November, 1874, 
rather later than the other species, than which it may want 
a warmer climate, as that of Chiapas and Tabasco is described 
as hot, damp, and its hills as clothed with a tropical forest. 
It was received from the rich collection of W. W. Sanders, 
Esq., F.R.S. i 
Descr. Stem none, or very short indeed. Leaves forming 
a flat crown three feet in diameter, not very numerous, 
strict, spreading, one and a half feet long by two inches in 
diameter at the broadest part, and one-eighth of an inch 
APRIL Ist, 1875. 
