TABe 7567. 
AGAVE Scuortt. 
Native of Arizona. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AGAVE. 
Genus Agave, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 738.) 
Aaave (Littea) Schottii; acaulis, foliis dense rosulatis e basi ovata linearibus 
rigidis apice pungentibus facie canaliculatis dorso carinatis margine 
filiferis, scapo elongato gracili, floribus in paniculam laxam subspicatam 
subsecundam dispositis, bracteis parvis ovatis cuspidatis, pedunculis 
pedicellisque brevibus clavatis, perianthio citrino tubo elongato infundibu- 
lari, lobis oblongis tubo brevioribus, staminibus vix exsertis supra 
medium tubi insertis, antheris magnis linearibus, fructu duro parvo 
oblongo. 
A. Schottii, Engelm. Notes on Agave, p.17. Collected Works, p. 315. Baker 
Handb. Amaryllid. p. 307. Miss Mulford in Report Missouri Gard. 
vol. vii. (1896) p. 72, t. 29. 
A. geminiflora var. ? Sonore, Torrey in Bot. Mex. Bound. p. 214. 
This very distinct Agave resembles A. jilifera and 
A. schidigera in having leaves the edges of which break 
away into fibres, but differs from them widely in its lax 
subsecund inflorescence, bright yellow flowers and short 
stamens. It is very abundant on the mountains of 
Southern Arizona, at an elevation of about five thousand 
feet above sea-level. Professor Toumey reports that it 
so thickly covers large areas, miles in extent, on the 
southern slopes of the mountains of Santa Catalina that 
it is almost impossible to travel through it. It is called 
_ Amole in its native country, and the rootstock is sold as 
affording a substitute for soap. It was first collected by 
the late Dr. Arthur Schott in 1855. The Kew plant was 
purchased at the sale of the collection of Mr. J. T. 
Peacock in 1889, but did not flower till March, 1897. 
There is a dwarf variety with serrulate leaves which 
extends further south than the type. 
Descr.—Rootstock two inches in diameter, thickly clothed 
with the fibrous relics of old leaves. Leaves forming a 
dense sessile rosette, linear from an ovate base, a foot 
long, pungent at the apex, channelled down the face, 
DecemsBes Ist, 1897, 
