338 AMARYLLIDEA. 
2. Bravoa sessiliflora, Hemsley, Diag. Pl. Nov. pars 3, p.54. (Tab. LXXXVI.) 
Gracilis, caule fere nudo quam folia duplo triplove longiore, foliis lmearibus obtusiusculis, bracteis 
parvis, floribus sessilibus seepissime geminis usque bipollicaribus, perianthii tubo angustissimo. 
Herba bulbosa (bulbus non visus) sesquipedalis, usque ad bipedalis, omnino glaberrima, caule 
gracili tereti solido, 6-8-floro. Folia anguste lineari-lanceolata, obtusiuscula, inferiora, con- 
ferta, adscendentia, vix carnosa, circiter 6-pollicaria, caulina pauca, distantia, sursum gradatim 
angustiora et breviora, suprema vix pollicaria. Flores (albi?) sessiles, sepissime gemini, usque 
bipollicares ; bracteze parve, ovato-acuminate, 4-5 lineas long; perianthii tubus angustis- 
simus, plus minus curvus, lobis brevibus ovatis apice leviter inflexis ; stamina inclusa; stylus 
trifidus, inclusus. Capsula (matura non visa) pisiformis, globosa. 
Nortu Mexico, region of San Luis Potosi 6000 to 8000 feet (Parry & Palmer, 867). 
Hb. Kew. 
This species differs from B. graminiflora in having longer, narrower, sessile, apparently 
white flowers. 
EXPLANATION OF TAB. LXXXVI. 
A plant, natural size. Fig. 1, a flower, slightly enlarged; 2, the same, more enlarged and laid 
open; 3, an anther, and 4, a cross section of an ovary, enlarged. 
12. BESCHORNERIA. 
Beschorneria, Kth. Enum. Plant. v. p. 844; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 738. 
This genus also is endemic in Mexico. 
1. Beschorneria tonelii, Jacobi in Otto’s Hamb. Gart. Zeit. xx. p- 503, absque 
descriptione ; Bot. Mag. t. 6091. 
Mexico. Cultivated specimens only in Kew herbarium. Hort. Kew. 
_ 2. Beschorneria tubiflora, Kth. Enum. v. p. 844; Bot. Mag. t. 4642; Regel, 
Gartenflora, xxiv. p. 355, t. 851. 
Furcrea (Fourcroya) tubiflora, Kth. et Bouché, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1845; Roem. Synop. Monogr., 
Amaryll. p. 295. 
Mexico (Ehrenberg). Cultivated specimens only in Kew herbarium. 
3. Beschorneria yuccoides, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5203. 
Mexico. Hort. Kew. 
13. AGAVE. 
Agave, Linn. Gen. Plant. n. 431; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 733. 
Upwards of 130 species were retained by Jacobi; but many of them were established 
on young cultivated plants, the flowers of which were unknown; and Baker reduces 
the number to 109. Generally speaking, we have followed the latter author, the 
exceptions being reductions made from descriptions alone, together with a few assumed 
varieties that have since proved distinct species. They are all endemic in America, and 
most numerous in Mexico, though ranging from the Southern States of N. America 
southward to Brazil. One species, A. americana, is naturalized in many parts of the 
Old World. 
