Tas. 4642. 
BESCHORNERIA 1 trusirtora. 
Tube-flowered Beschorneria. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—HEXANDRIA MOoNoGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Perigonium superum, corollaceum, profunde sexpartitum, fundo 
nectarifluum ; Zaciniis tubuloso-conniventibus, apice patulis, plurinerviis ; sepali- 
nis late lineari-spathulatis, acutiusculis ; petalinis vix brevioribus, paulo latiori- 
bus, obtusis. Stamina 6, fundo perigonii inserta, equalia, erecta, perigonio pa- 
rum breviora. Filamenta subulata, distincta, basi paulo incrassata, in alabastro 
recta. Anthere biloculares, lineari-lanceolate, obtuso-emarginate, basi sagittato- 
bilobze, dorso infra medium affixee, secundum longitudinem interne dehiscentes, 
demum incumbentes, mobiles. Ovarium inferum, subclavatum, obtuse hexago- 
num, triloculare; vertex liber, conicus, profunde trisulcatus; ovuda in loculis 
crebra, biseriata, complanata, horizontalia, anatropa. Columna stylina erecta, 
tenuis, trisulcato-triangularis. Stigma columne stylinee equicrassum, indivisum, 
obtusum, papillosum. Fructus . . .—Planta acaulis. Folia radicalia cespitosa, 
anguste linearia, carinato-canaliculata, recurvata, subtilissime spinuloso-denticulata. 
Scapus erectus, longissimus, simplex. Flores per paucos fasciculato-congesti ; brac- 
teis suffulti, longe pedunculati, nutantes ; fasciculis remotis, secundis. Kth. 
Bkscuorneria tubiflora. 
BrscHorNERIA tubiflora. Kunth, Enum. Plant. v. 5. p. 844. 
Fourcroya tubiflora. “ Kunth et Bouché, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol, 1845.” 
Imported from Mexico to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it 
produced its Agave-like blossoms in a cool greenhouse in Feb- 
ruary 1852. Professor Kunth considers the genus to be interme- 
diate between Littea (Agave, sect. 2) and Furcrea, differmg from 
the latter in habit, from the former in its included stamens, and 
from both in the tubular flower. 
Drscr. Stemless. eaves radical, tufted, spreading and more 
or less recurved, linear, sword-shaped, very much acuminated, 
eighteen inches to two feet long, thickened and narrowed and 
triangular at the base, minutely striated, glaucous-green, beneath 
tough to the touch, and when seen under the microscope muri- 
cated on the nerves, and sharply denticulated at the margin. 
Scape erect, in our plant four feet high, bearing a many-flowered 
APRIL Ist, 1852, 
