Tab. 7890. 

 AGAVE Bakeri. 



Native of Mexico ? 



Nat. Ord. Amaryllide*. — Tribe Agaves. 

 Genus Agave, Linn.; {Benth. & Rooh.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 738.) 



Agave (Littsea) Bakeri ; trunco 4-pedali, liasi nudo coma 6 ped. diam. 

 e foliis perplurimis densissime confertis confecta, foliis 3 ped. longiB 

 undique patenti-revolutis medio 5 poll, latis loriformi-lanceolatis haud 

 crassis basi angustatis supra planiusculis Bnbtus leviter convexis spina 

 pollicavi terminatis, marginibus lajvibus purpureis, pedunculo brevi crasso 

 foliis junioribus brevibus erectis cincto, racemo 8-9-pedali stricto erecto 

 cylindraceo, floribift densissime confertis, bracteis floribus aiquilongis e basi 

 ovata rubro striata anguste linearibus, bracteolis triaugularibus mem- 

 branaceis rubro striatis pedicellos crassos |-po!Iicares aequantibus, ovariis 

 pollicaribus lineari-oblongis teretibus, perianthii tubo ovario sequilongo 

 obconico 6-sulcato, lobis pollicaribus lineari-oblongis obtusis revolutia 

 extus viridibns intus albo-viridibus fascia media saturatiore pictis, fila- 

 mentis 2-pollicaribus albis, antheris pollicaribus anguste linearibus 

 aureis, stylo tilamentis breviore apice sabclavellato 3-lobulato. 



A. Bakeri, Hook. /., ex W. Watson in Garden, 1902, vol. i. p. 240, cum ic. 

 reduct. 



A very distinct species of Agave, purchased for the Koyal 

 Gardens, Kew, at the sale of the late Mr. Peacock's noble 

 collection of Cactuses, Aloes, and Agaves in 1889, with no 

 indication of its native country or collector. It flowered 

 in the Mexican division of the Temperate House in January 

 to March, 1902. I have named it after my friend, J. G. 

 Baker, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., late Keeper of the Herbarium 

 of the Royal Gardens, Kew, author of the Handbooks of 

 the Amaryllidese, Irideae, Bromeliacea3, and of other 

 works that have been of signal service to Botanists and 

 Horticulturalists. 



Descr. — Trunk about four feet high, stout, erect, bearing 

 an elongated crown six feet in diameter, of very numerous, 

 spreading and recurved leaves, and a very shortly ped uncled, 

 dense-flowered cylindrical raceme of nearly nine feet 

 high. Leaves three feet long by five inches broad at 

 the middle, narrowed towards the base, terminated by a 

 spine an inch long, glaucous-green, with a quite entire, 

 narrow, purple margin, coriaceous, slightly concave above, 

 and convex beneath ; young leaves erect, crowded round, 

 April 1st, 1903. 



