82 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
In August I again visited the plant and found that a new 
shoot had developed into a spike some 3 feet long and was 
then covered with flowers. This spike matured fruit in 
December. In November the old plant began to send out 
of the axils of the old leaves a number of small plantlets 
instead of flowering spikes. The old plant still shows con- 
siderable vitality although no new leaves have been devel- 
oped since it first began to flower in February, 1897, and 
we are looking with interest to see what new phase it may 
assume before it dies. 
As originally described the flowers are in clusters of 3 to 6; the buds 
are oblong, slightly tinged with brown; the perianth lobes are oblong, 7 
lines long, spreading above, slightly tinged with brown, tipped with a 
small tuft of hairs; tube very short; the filaments (15 lines long) and the 
anthers before dehiscing are reddish-brown; the style is also reddish, at 
first much shorter than the filaments, finally overtopping them. The 
flowers produce an abundance of nectar. — Plate 8. 
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AGAVE EXPATRIATA Rose sp. nov. 
In the spring and summer of 1898 an Agave labeled A. 
Brauniana flowered for us. The leaf characters showed 
at once that it was not of the group to which that species 
belongs, but that it very clearly belonged to Mr. Baker’s 
group Marginatae, of which heteracantha and sxylon- 
acantha are examples. It proves to be quite unlike any of 
these species, and although I have gone over the related 
species again and again I see no other course open but to 
describe it as new. This was not done until the species 
had been looked up both at Kew and at the Missouri Botan- 
ical Garden and I was informed by both Mr. Baker and 
Dr. Trelease that the species was not in their collections. 
The flowering spike was first noticed on March 14, 1898, 
the first flowers opened May 9, and the last on June 24. 
The spike on March 17, measured 4 feet, 3 inches; on 
March 20, 6 feet (including the one-foot peduncle) ; on 
March 25, 7} feet; on April 7, 10 feet (including the 
5-foot peduncle); on April 21, 12 feet, 8 inches, and 
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