36 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
H. funifera (Koch) Trelease. 
H. Davyi Baker, Kew Bull. 1898: 226. 
H. Engelmanni Baillon, Hist. des Pl. 12 511. — Urbina, Cat. Pl. Mex. 
352. 
Yucca funifera Koch, Belg. Hort. 123132. (1862).— Lemaire, IIl. 
Hort. 18:99. (1866). — Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 18: 228. 
Agave funifera Lemaire, Ill. Hort. 11: Misc. 65. [66a]. (1864). 
Often cespitose. Leaves larger, at length less concave, often with 
much coarser marginal fibers. Inflorescence 2 to 2.5 m. high, few 
branched near the top. Pedicels and flowers purplish green, glaucous, 
the latter about 25 mm. long; style scarcely exserted. Capsule 25 to 50 
mm. long, with strong beak, the false septum evanescent or protruding 
into the cell only toward the base, where it forms a large thin tooth; seeds 
6x9 mm. — Plates 3. 4, f. 7. 81, f. 8. 
Northern Mexico, between the Rio Grandeand the Sabinas, 
and, apparently, in the state of San Luis Potosi (Pringle, 
3911). — Plate 92, f. 1. 
The Engelmann herbarium contains a fruiting fragment, 
at first referred to Yucca but afterward to Hesperaloe, col- 
lected in 1847 by Dr. Wislizenus at Cerralvo, northeast of 
Monterey. Similar capsules were brought by Dr. Parry, in 
1878, from ‘‘ the plains between Monterey and the Rio 
Grande.’’ The herbarium of the Field Columbian Museum 
contains excellent specimens of the same plant from Buste- 
mente, in the State of Nuevo Leon, collected by Henry W. 
Wood in July, 1900. In 1891, Mr. Pringle made good 
leaf and fruit specimens, representing the same genus, at 
the Hacienda de Angostura, east of San Luis Potosi, which 
were distributed as H. Hngelmanni, under the number 
3911, and so referred to by Baillon. 
In March, 1900, when going over the Mexican Interna- 
tional railroad, north of the Sabinas river, I observed a 
considerable quantity of what was evidently a Hesperaloe, 
with persisting capsules of the preceding year, which came 
down to the railroad only on the higher ridges through 
which cuts had been made. Toward the end of April, 
when the plants had begun to bloom, I visited this region 
again, and some six kilometers south of Peyotes collected 
