Tas.o7pos. 
AGAVE Bovucuett. 
Native of Mewico, 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AGAVE. 
Genus Acaveg, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 738.) 
Agave (Litteea) Bouchet; candice brevi cylindrico polycarpico, foliis 30-40 
dense rosulatis oblongo-lanceolatis facie concavis adultis utrinque viridi- 
bus junioribus leviter glaucescentibus spina brevi vix pungente terminatis, 
-spinnlis marginalibus crebris minutis deltoideis castaneis, pedunculo 
valido brevi, Horibus geminis in spicam densam aggregatis, bracteis 
linearibus elongatis, bracteolis parvis deltoideis, ovario oblongo, perianthii 
tubo brevi late infundibulari, lobis oblongis, filamentis lobis quadruplo 
longioribus, antheris linearibus, fructu parvo oblongo. 
A. Bouchei, Jacobi, Monogr. Agave, p. 120. ‘Baker in Gard. Chron. 1877, 
p- 717; Handb. Amaryllid. p. 191. 
This Agave is one of the few species that have a firm, 
woody trunk, and do not die after flowering. It belongs 
to the group called Carnoso-coriacex, in which the leaves 
are less rigid and more fleshy than in the best-known 
species of the genus, such as A. americana and rigida, and 
which are much less frequent in cultivation. The present 
plant was introduced into the Berlin Botanic Garden in 
1861, and after it had flowered in 1864 was named by 
General Jacobi in compliment to Inspector Bouché. It 
has been in the Royal Garden at Kew for at least twenty 
years, but has never flowered till the summer of 1896. 
_ Descr.—Peduncle stout, woody, polycarpic, nearly as 
ong as the leaves, bearing in the Kew plant, two rosettes _ 
leaves crowded at its apex. Leaves thirty or forty ina 
dense rosette, oblong-lanceolate, rather fleshy in texture, 
a foot and a half or two feet long, three or four inches 
broad at the middle, concave all down the face, a sixth of 
an inch thick in the centre, green on both surfaces when 
mature, slightly glaucous when young; end spine short 
and weak; marginal teeth very small, crowded, deltoid, 
red-brown. Peduncle short and stout. Spike dense, two 
feet long in the Kew plant ; flowers in pairs, subtended by 
a long bract, and a pair of small bracteoles. Perianth 
OcroBeR Ist, 1897. 
