Tap. -GbEL. 
AGAVE HORRIDA. 
Native of Mezxico. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACEH.—Sub-order AGAVE. 
Genus Agave, Linn. ; (Kunth Enum. vol. v. p. 818.) 
Agave (Littea) horrida ; acaulis, foliis 30-40 dense rosulatis ensiformibus sub- 
pedalibus apice spina pungente corneo magna armatis margine lato corneo 
griseo cinctis aculeis magnis distantibus inaqualibus armato, pedunculo foliis 
3-4-plo superante, bracteis vacuis subulatis squarrosis, floribus in paniculam 
subspicatam densam cylindricam aggregatis geminis breviter pedunculatis et 
pedicellatis, bracteis parvis linearibus, ovario cylindrico-trigono, tubo brevi late 
infundibulari, segmentis oblongis purpureo-viridibus, staminibus ad tubi fancem 
insertis segmentis 2~3-plo longioribus, stylo demum filamentis equilongo. 
A. horrida, Lemaire ; Jacobi Monog. pp. 43 and 207; Nacktrage, p.15; K. Koch 
in Wochenschrift, vol. xii. p. 177; Baker in Gard. Chron. nv. 8. vol. Vil. 
(1877), p- 621, fig. 99. 
A. Regeliana and Desmetiana, Hort. non Jacobi. 
This is one of the best known of the smaller Agaves with 
a distinct continuous horny border to the leaf. It was 
introduced from Mexico by Verschaffelt in 1862, and is now 
to be found in all the more complete collections, but usually 
under the name either of Regeliana or Desmetiana, both of 
which rightfully belong to species of another section. I 
am not aware that there is any record of its having flowered. 
Our drawing was made from a plant in the collection so 
liberally lent to Kew by J. T. Peacock, Hisq., of Hammer- 
smith, which has been on exhibition for a considerable time 
in the south wing of the Temperate House, where it flowered 
in the spring of this present year. he flowers are notably 
proterandrous, the style not reaching its full length, nor 
the stigma becoming papilldse, till long after the anthers of 
the same flower are withered. I believe that A. triangularis, 
grandidentata, and Maigretiana of Jacobi, and A. Gilbeyi 
of Haage and Schmidt, will all prove to be forms of this 
species. 
AauGusT lst, 1880. 
