Tas. 6543. 
F OURCROYA CUBENSIS vai. Inermis. 
Native of Tropical America. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACES.—Tribe AGARER. 
Genus Fourcroya (Vent.), Schultes ; (Kunth Enum. vol. v. p- 839.) 
Fovurcroya cubensis var. inermis; caudice brevi, foliis 20-30 dense rosulatis 
larceolatis viridibus 2-3-pedalibus subintegris exterioribus recurvatis, pedunculo 
foliis duplo longiori, floribus in paniculam laxam rhomboideam ramis erecto- 
patentibus dispositis, pedicellis brevissimis cernuis apice articulatis, bracteis 
minutis deltoideis, ovario eylindrico-trigono 8-9 lin. longo, limbi segmentis 
oblongo-lanceolatis ovario longioribus, staminibus limbo duplo brevioribus, 
stylo antheras superante stigmate parvo. 
This fine Foureroya came from the collection of Mr. 
Wilson Saunders, and flowered in the Cactus House at Kew 
in the winter of 1879-1880. Though at first sight it looks 
very different, I do not think that it can safely be regarded 
as more than a variety of the widely-spread tropical 
American Fourcroya cubensis of Haworth, of which, although 
it is frequently seen in gardens and has been fully known 
_ by botanists for the last one hundred and twenty years, no 
good figure has yet been given. From the ordinary F. 
cubensis, of which a description and the full synonymy will 
be found in my monograph of the genus in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle, 1879, page 623, our present plant differs by its 
less rigid leaves and by the total or almost entire suppression 
of their marginal teeth, which in the type are very large 
and close, and armed with pungent horny brown spines. 
The original spelling of the name of the genus is Furcrea, 
but as it was named in honour of the chemist Fourcroy, we 
-have followed the emendation of Schultes, which is now 
almost universally adopted. oe 
Descr. Caudew very short, about three inches in diameter. 
Leaves twenty or thirty in a dense rosette, lanceolate, bright 
green and smooth both on back and face, almost or quite 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1881. 
