Tab. 7207. 

 agave albicans. 



Native of Mexico. 



Nat. OrJ. Amaryllide;e. Tribe Agave.e. 

 Genus Agave, Linn. (Senth. A Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. r38.) 



Agave (Littasa) albicans ; acaulis, foliis 20-30 dense rosula*tis oblanceolato- 

 spathulatis carnoso-coriaceis persistenter srlaucescentibus, apiia termioali 

 haudpungente, aculeis marginalibus crebris minutis deltoideis, peduaculo 

 stricto foliis 3-1-plo longiore foliis reluctis pluribas scariosis adpressis 

 praedito, floribus in spicam densam oblongam congest/is, bractei-! magais 

 binceolatis acuminatis, perianthii segmentis oblongis int is brunneis 

 tubum duplo superantibus, stamiaibus segmeatis 3-l-plo loa^ioribus. 



A. albicans, Jacobi Vers. Syst. Ord. Agav. p. 137; Baker in Qard. Chron. 1887, 



vol. ii. p. 717, fig. 138*; Handb. Amiryll. p. 191. 

 A. Ousselgbemiana, Jacobi Nachtrag. p. 156. 

 A. micracantha, var. albidior, Salm-dycJc in Bonplaniia, vol. vii. p. 87. 



Of these comparatively soft-leaved tender Agaves, which 

 compose the group called " Aloidce" only two species, viz. 

 A. Celsiana, tab. 4934, and A. Sartorii, tab. 6292, have 

 yet been figured in the " Botanical Magazine." My 

 estimate of the total number of species at present known is 

 thirty, but many of these have been described from very 

 imperfect material and are not known in flower. The 

 present plant is closely allied to A. micracantha Salm-dyck 

 (figured in the " Refugium Botanicum " of Saunders, tab. 

 327), and scarcely more than a variety of that species in a 

 broad sense. It was introduced into cultivation about 

 1860, and if, as I believe, A. Ousselghemiana, of the 

 Belgian gardens, is identical with it, was first flowered by 

 Count Kerchove d'Ousselghem in 1867. In England it 

 was flowered by Mr. Justus Corderoy, at Blewbury, in 

 1887. Our drawing was made from a plant that flowered 

 in the Succulent House at Kew, in May, 1891, and was 

 purchased in 1889 at the sale of the late Mr. J. T. Peacock's 

 collection of Succulent plants. 



Desck. Acaulescent. Leaves twenty to thirty in a dense 

 rosette, oblanceolate-spathulate, twelve or fifteen inches 

 lonjj, three or four inches broad at the middle, narrowed to 

 two or two and a half inches above the dilated base, com' 



Dw km her 1st, 1891. 



