Tas. 8442. 
AGAVE MARMORATA. 
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Mexico. 
AMARYLLIDACEAR. Tribe AGAVEAE. 
AaAvg, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 733. 
Agave (Euagave) marmorata, Roezl in Belg. Hort. 1883, p.238; Baker Handb, 
Amaryll. p. 179; a speciebus ceteris subsectionis Americanae nuncupatae 
differt foliis glaucissimis asperrimis floribusque parvis jucunde luteis. 
Frutex acaulis, rosula simplex usque 2 m. diametro et 1 m. fere alta, foliis 
circiter 30 eleganter patenti-recurvis composita. Folia lanceolata, 1°05- 
1-1 m. longa et 25-27 cm. supra medium lata, basin versus ad 14 cm. 
angustata, basi biconvexa 6-8 cm. crassa praesertim subtus carinato- 
convexa, a medio marginibus incurvis subundulatis late et profunde 
canaliculata, glauca vel caesia, defloratione tantum viridescentia, utrique 
—praesertim subtus—asperrima, a basi usque apicem repando-dentata, 
aculei validi, irregulares, deltoideo-cuspidati, cornei, brunnei, asperi, 
basi carnosae deltoideae vel ovatae insidientes, sinubus profundis ro- 
tundatis vel acutis separati, majores 20-50 mm. distantes et 15-20 mm. 
longi sacpissime minoribus interjectis, inferiores et summi sensim 
minores ex margine recto vix repando; spina terminalis 20 mm. longa, 
griseo-brunne1, subulata, haud decurrens, asperrima.  Inflorescentiae 
3°75 m. altae; pedunculus pro rata plantae paullum robustus, 1°95 m. 
altus, viridis, basi bracteis foliaceis paucis munitus, superne bracteis _ 
vacuis deltoideis acuminatis scariosis circiter 15-16 cm. longis remotis 
onustus; panicula oblongo-cylindracea, circiter 1°8 m. longa et 55 em. 
lata, ramis circiter 26 erecto-patentibus apice tripartitis majoribus 25 cm. 
longis ; flores dense aggregati, parvi, jucunde lutei. Pedicelli brevissim1 ; 
bracteae minutae, deltoideae, mox siccantes. Perianthii segmenta cam- 
panulato-conniventia, erecta, basi tantum in tubum brevem connata, 
apice mox siccantia, carnosula, laete lutea, exteriora ovato-lanceolata, 
acutiuscula, dorso convexa, intus late canaliculata, 16-18 mm. longa et 
6 mm. lata, interiora breviora, obtusiora et latiora, dorso carinata, intus 
profunde canaliculata; stamina imo basi tubi affixa, filamenta lutea 
inaequalia, 3-3°5 em. longa, antherae 16 mm. Jongae, luteae. —Ovartum 
20-22 mm. longum, 6 mm. latum, laete et nitide viride, subtrigono- 
cylindraceum utrinque attenuatum, sub tubo 6-sulcatum ; stylus demum 
35 mm. longus, luteus, stigma subtrilobum capitatum.—A. BrreEr. 
Agave marmorata was collected by Roezl in the Province 
of Tehuacan, Mexico, and has since then been rather rare 
in collections. Of two plants in the garden of the late 
Sir T. Hanbury at La Mortola, Ventimiglia, under this 
name, in 1901, one poled in autumn 1904. The scape Was _ 
damaged by frost during the following winter, and it 
produced from the stump a large number of bulbils, by 
Juny, 1912. 
