Tab. 7170. 

 FURCRJEA BEDiNGHAUsir. 



Native of Mexico. 



Nat. Ord. Amari'llide.1!. — Tribe Agaves. 

 Genus Furck^a, Vent.; (Benth. et Hoolc.f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 739.) 



Fubcr.ea Bedinghausii; caulescens, foliis dense rosulatia ensiformibus 3-4- 

 pedalibns recurvatis facie lfevibua dorso scabris valde glaucescentibus 

 marginibus denticulatis, floribus in paniculam amplam ramia elongatia 

 pendulis compositis dispositia, pedicellis brevibus aggregatis apice articu- 

 latis, bracteis parvis scariosia, ovario cylindrico, perianthio albo aegmentis 

 interioribus oblongis exterioribua lineari-oblongis dorso viridi tinctia, 

 staminibus periantbio brevioribus filamentia valde strumosis, piatillo 

 staminibas sequilongo. 



F. Bedingbansii, K. Koch. Wochen. 1863, 233 ; E. Morren in Belt/. Hort. 

 1863, 327, witb figure ; Baker in Gard. Chron. 1879, vol. i. p. 656 ; Handb. 

 Amaryll. p. 203. 



F. Eoezlii, Andre in Rev. Hort. 1887, p. 353, fig. 1. 



Eoezlia bulbifera, Boezl. in Belg. Hort. 1883, p. 133 (name only). 



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This is a most distinct and interesting species of Fur- 

 crcea, with the habit of a dwarf form of F. longwva, but 

 with leaves resembling those of a Besclwrneria in their 

 texture and denticulate margin. It was discovered by 

 Roezl in the year 1860 on Mount Acasca, which is situated - 

 seven or eight German miles south of the city of Mexico, 

 and was introduced by him into cultivation. It was first 

 flowered in 1863 by M. Bedinghaus of Mods, in Belgium, 

 after whom it was named by Dr. Karl Koch. It is now 

 widely spread in gardens, and has borne a variety of names 

 in garden catalogues, such as Yucca Parmentieri, Y. argyro- 

 phylla, Y. Toneliana, and Boezlia rcgia. It has been 

 flowered more than once in the open air in Scilly by Mr. 

 Dorrien Smith, and in various places in England, always 

 under cover so far as I know. Our drawing was made 

 from a plant flowered in the summer of 1890 by E. H. 

 AVoodball, Esq., of St. Nicholas House, Scarborough. 



Descr. Trunk reaching sometimes a length of five or six 

 feet below the rosette and a diameter of six or nine inches. 



ArKiL 1st, 1891. 



