Tap: 7527. 
AGAVE HaAse.Lorrit. 
Native of Mexico. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDE#.—Tribe AGAVER. 
Genus Acave, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iu. p. 738.) 
Agave (Littwa) Haselofii; acaulis, foliis 30-40 dense rosulatis lanceolatis 
viridibus subcarnosis ad basin vix angustatis spind terminali haud 
pungente aculeis marginalibus parvis crebris deltoideis apice corneis 
nigris, pedunculo valido arcuato bracteis multis adpressis preedito, floribus 
_geminis sessilibus, in spicam densam dispositis, bracteis propriis magnis 
seariosis linearibus basi deltoideis, ovario oblongo, perianthii tubo brevi 
campanulato, lobis oblongis bruaneo-viridibus, staminibus lobis 4—5-plo. 
longioribus, antheris linearibus parvis, stylo demum antheras superante. 
A. Haseloffii, Jacobi Monogr. Agav. (1864) p. 244; in Hamb. Gartenzeit, vol. 
xxii. (1866) p. 220. Baker in Gard. Chron. 1877, p. 683 ; Handb. Amaryllid, 
p- 189. 
This Agave belongs to the section Aloidex, in which the 
leaves are more fleshy, and not rigid in texture asin the 
better known Americane and Rigide and the marginal 
prickles always numerous and minute. The species of 
this group are comparatively rare in cultivation. The 
present plant has been grown at Kew for many years, but 
flowered for the first time in the summer of 1895. The 
species was originally described by Jacobi in 1864, and 
was named by him after the gentleman in whose garden 
he saw it. 
Descr.—Leaves thirty to forty, in a dense sessile rosette, 
_ lanceolate, rather soft, and not very thick in texture, a 
_ foot and a half or two feet long, three inches broad at the 
middle, very little narrowed towards the base, pale bright 
green, the end spine not horny nor pungent, the marginal 
prickles very close and small, tipped with black. Peduncle 
arising from the base of the rosette of the leaves, stout, 
arcuate, three feet long, with numerous ascending bract 
leaves, the upper scariose and long-pointed. Flowers in 
sessile pairs, forming a dense spike, which is five or six 
inches in diameter when they are fully expanded; bracts 
APRIL Ist, 1897, 
