ROS CUTS: 
BESCHCORNERIA Waicatt. 
Native of Mexico? 
Nat. Ord. AMaRYLLIDEX.—Tribe AGAVEZ. 
Genus Bescuornerta, Kunth; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p, 738.) 
Bescuornerta Wrightit; trunco robusto, foliis ad 60 dense confertis patenti- 
recurvis ensiformibus 4~5 ped. longis crasse coriaceis medium versus 
2-poll. latis basi dilatatis crassissimis margine denticulatis apice in 
acumen brunneum elongatum angustitis utrinque lete viridibus dorso 
costa lata percursis, pedunculo brevi robusto foliis paucis abbreviatis 
erectis instructo, panicule 8-pedalis pyramidalis rhachi ramulisque 
patenti-recurvis glaberrimis roseis, floribus secus ramulos in fasciculos 
9-4-flores dispositis nutantibus breviter pedicellatis pubescentibus, 
bracteis 3-1 poll. longis ovato-lanceolntis bracteolisque minoribus 
seariosis albis roseo striatis, pedicellis glaberrimis, ovario ? poll. longo 
cylindraceo, perianthii tubo ovario paullo longiore et latiore, segmentis 
lineari-spathulatis viridibus marginibus flavidis apicibus patulis intus 
flavis, antheris linearibus apicibus exsertis. 
Beschorneria Wrightii is much the largest species of the 
five that have as yet flowered at Kew, and been figured in 
this work (tabs, 4642, 5203, 6641, 6091, 6768). Of these 
it is most nearly allied to B. Dekosteriana, C, Koch, 
Wochenschr. vii. (1864), 187 (B. Decosteriana, Baker, tab. 
6768), which differs in the quite glabrous flowers. Of its 
native country, or the date of its introduction into the 
Royal Gardens of Kew, where it bore the erroneous name 
of Furcrea Bedinghausii ? a very different plant, there is 
no record. With the exception of a Texan species 
(B. dubia), Mexico is the native country of the genus. I 
have given it the name of Mr. Charles H. Wright, A.L.S., 
Assistant in the Kew Herbarium, who had examined and 
distinguished it from its congeners. It flowered in the 
Mexican division of the Temperate House of the Royal 
Gardens in June, 1900. 
Deser.—Stem (of the specimen figured) eighteen inches 
high, six inches in diameter. Leaves about fifty, densely 
crowded, spreading and recurved, ensiform, coriaceous, 
four to five feet long by two inches broad about the middle; 
tip narrowed into a brown, dagger-like tip; base dilated, 
June Ist, 1901. 
