Tas. 6292. 
AGAVE (irra) Sartori. 
Native of Mexico and Guatemala. 
Nat. Ord. AmaryLLipAcE%.—Tribe AGAvER. 
Genus Acave, Zinn ( Jacobi in Hamburg Gartenzeit., 1864, et anni seq.). 
AGave (Littea) Sartorii ; breviter caulescens, caudice interdum furcato, foliis cir- 
citer 30 laxe rosulatis lanceolatis bipedalibus carnoso-coriaceis viridibus 
seepissime albido-vittatis, e medio ad apicem angustatis, mucrone terminali 
haud pungente, aculeis marginalibus minutis crebris patentibus deltoideis 
inequalibus castaneis, scapo foliis 2-3-plo longiore foliis reductis pluribus 
linearibus erectis predito, panicula cylindrica subspicata tripedali cernua, 
pedunculis et pedicellis subobsoletis, bracteis parvis linearibus basi deltoideis, 
perianthio viridi luteo tincto, ovario oblongo, tubo late infundibulari ovario 
zequilongo fauce dilatato segmentis oblongis erecto-falcatis, genitalibus longe 
exsertis. ' ' 
A. Sartorii, K. Koch in Wochensch. 1860, p. 87; Jacobi, Monog. Agave, p. 128. 
A. aloina, XK. Koch, loc. cit. p. 37. 
A. Noackii, Jacobi, Monog. Agave, p. 125. ; 
A. pendula, Schnittspahn; Jacobi, Monog. Agave, p. 130. 
A. cespitosa, Todaro Hort. Bot. Panorm, p. 32, t..8. 
Fovurcroya Noackii, Hort. 
This is a very well-marked species of Agave, easily recog- 
nisable in the large group of the carnoso-coriacee by its 
caulescent habit, which is very rare in the genus as a whole, 
and confined to this single species in the group In question. 
It was first introduced to the Berlin botanic garden by Dr. 
Rohrbach about 1850, and has since been received from the 
district of Orizaba, in Mexico. Our first notice of its flower- 
ing is by Dr. Schnittspahn in 1857 in the Zeitschrift des 
Gartenbauvereines zu Darmstadt. It is fully described, so 
far as leaves go, under three different names in the mono- 
graph of Jacobi, and has lately been figured under a fourth 
by Todaro from a specimen that flowered at the botanic 
garden at Palermo. The present plate is after a drawing of 
a specimen that flowered with Mr. Wilson Saunders, at 
Reigate, in March, 1870, and it has flowered at least twice 
APRIL Ist, 1877. 
