Tas. 6655. 
AGAVE oNIVITTATA. 
Native of Mexico. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACEH.—Suborder AGAVER. 
Genus Acave, Linn.; (Kunth Enum, vol. v. p. 818.) 
Agave (Littwa) wnivittata ; acaulis, foliis 50 vel ultra dense rosulatis ensiformibu. 
rigidis 13-2-pedalibus sordide viridibus linea mediana pallida vittatis apice spind 
pungente armatis marginibus continuis corneis angustis aculeis marginalibus 
distantibus parvis falcatis, pedunculo gracili 3—4-pedali, bracteis vacuis linearibus 
superioribus squarrosis, floribus in spicam elongatam cylindricam dispositis, 
bracteis parvis lancéolatis, pedicellis brevissimis, bracteolis minutis lanceolatis, 
floribus viridibus, ovario cylindrico pollicari collo constricto, perianthii tubo 
subnullo, segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis ovario brevioribus, staminibus segimentis 
2-3-plo superantibus. 
A. univittata, Haworth in Phil. Mag. vol. x. p. 414; Salm-dyck Hort. Dyck. 
p. 308; Bonpland. vol. vii. p. 92; Kunth Enum. vol. v. p. 835; C. Koch in 
Wochenschrift, 1860, p. 47; Baker in Saund. Ref. Bot. tab. 215; in Gard. 
Chron. 1877, p. 369, fig. 58. 
This is one of the best-known and most distinct of the 
marginate Agaves. It is remarkable for its very stiff 
numerous narrow pungent ensiform leaves, which have a 
narrow horny border, with distant prickles, and invariably 
are marked down the centre with a narrow pale band, such 
as occurs casually in some other species. It has been in 
cultivation in this country for fifty years at least, but the 
flowering was not recorded till it was figured in 1870 in 
the Refugium. During the last few years I have seen it 
in flower, not only in our own collection, but also in those 
of Messrs. Peacock and Wilson Saunders. Our drawing 
“em from a plant that flowered at Kew in the spring 
oO Us 
Descr. Leaves fifty or more in a dense sessile rosette, 
ensiform, very rigid in texture, one and a half or two feet 
long, one and a half or two inches broad at the middle, not 
narrowed at all downwards, narrowed gradually upwards 
to the pungent brown point, quite flat on the face in the 
NOVEMBER lst, 1882, 
