TAB. 7427. 
PROCHYNANTHES Botttana. 
Native of Mexico. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEH.—Tribe AGAVE. 
Genus Procuynantues, S. Wats. in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xxii. p. 457. 
ProcuynantueEs, Bulliana; rhizomate tuberoso fibris coronato, foliis radicalibus 
paucis rosulatis oblanceolatis acutis subcoriaceis persistentibus glabris 
margine denticulatis, pedunculo elongato foliis paucis reductis lanceolatis 
pradito, floribus geminis sessilibus in spicam laxam elongatam dispositis, 
bracteis ovatis parvis, perianthio purpureo-viridulo ad medium decurvato 
tubo deorsum oblongo sursum campanulato, lobis ascendentibus sub- 
orbicularibus, staminibus inclusis ad medium tubi insertis, stylo 
perianthio zequilongo apice lobis tribus patulis orbicularibus pubescentibus 
_ stigmatosis preedito. 
Bravoa Bulliana, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1884, vol. ii. p. 328; Handb. 
Amaryllid. p. 161. 
This fifth genus of Agavexe has been discovered since 
the publication of Bentham and Hooker’s Genera Planta- 
rum. Itis mtermediate between Polianthes and Bravoa, 
differing from both by its more coriaceous persistent leaves 
and greenish-brown flowers abruptly decurved and dilated 
at the middle. The original species, P. viridiflora, 8. 
Wats., which was discovered by Dr. Palmer in 1886 in the. 
province of Jalisco, has long pedicels, which are articulated 
at the middle. In the present plant the flowers are larger 
and quite sessile. It was imported from Mexico by Mr. — 
Wilham Bull, and first flowered by him in the year 1884, 
at which date [ described it in the Gardener’s Chronicle, 
under the genus Bravoa. Mr. Bull presented a plant to 
the Royal Gardens, Kew, and our drawing was made from 
this when it flowered in an unbeated frame last summer. 
This is the first time the genus has been figured, and the 
original species, so far as I am aware, has never been 
brought into cultivation. 
Descr.—Rootstock tuberous, crowned by a dense mass of 
fibres. Leaves few in a radical rosette, oblanceolate, acute, 
subcoriaceous, persistent, bright green, a foot or more 
long, two inches broad at the middle, denticulate on the 
pale horny margins. Pedunele erect, twice as long as the 
Aveusr Isr, 1895. : 
