Tas. 6589. 
AGAVE Hookert. 
Native of Mexico. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACEH.—Tribe AGAVE. 
Genus AcaveE, Linn. ; (Kunth Enum. vol. v. p. 818.) 
AGave (Euagave) Hookeri ; acaulis, foliis 30-40 dense rosulatis lanceolatis coriaceo- 
carnosis 4—5-pedalibus viridibus (junioribus solum leviter glauco tinctis) e 
medio 6-8 poll. lato ad spinam validam terminalem secus margines breviter 
decurrentem sensim angustatis, aculeis marginalibus corneis brunneis deltoideo- 
cuspidatis modice validis, pedunculo crasso 30-pedali, floribus in paniculam 
rhomboideam ramis dense corymbosis dispositis, pedicellis semipollicaribus, 
bracteolis scariosis lanceolatis, ovario cylindrico-trigono sesquipollicari, perianthii 
- tubo brevissimo, segmentis lanceolatis luteis ovario equilongis, filamentis limbo 
duplo longioribus, antheris magnis linearibus, stylo demum staminibus 
zequilongo. 
“A. Hookeri, Jacobi in Hamburg Gartenzeit. vol. xxii. p. 168; Monogr. p. 219; 
Baker in Gard. Chron. 1877, vol. ii. p. 718. 
A. Fenzliana, Jacobi in Hamburg Gartenzeit. vol. xxii. p. 170. 
A. inequidens, K. Koch in Wochenschrift, 1860, p. 28? 
This is one of the giant Agaves of the Americana group, 
which flowered for the first time, so far as botanical records 
extend, at Kew last year, and our drawing is made from a 
specimen which, for the six winter months, was one of the 
principal attractions of the Palm House. When the veteran 
monographer of the genus Agave, Lieutenant-General von 
Jacobi, visited Kew about the year 1865, he found in our 
collection three new species, which he named Hookeri, 
Thomsoniana, and Smithiana. The original type of Hookeri, 
from which his diagnosis and description, which were 
published in the “ Hamburg Gartenzeitung ” in 1866, were 
drawn up, we still possess, but it has never flowered. ‘he 
present specimen belonged to Mr. Wilson Saunders, and 
differs a little from the type by its smaller and more distant 
prickles. I feel satisfied that Jacobi’s Agave Fenzliana is 
the same species, and think they will most likely both prove 
NOVEMBER lst, 1881. 
