﻿LITERATURE OF FURCRAEA WITH SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES. 41 



i. p. 13, t. 4, is known solely from the figure and description of 

 Todaro, but is given a place among the admitted species for 

 reasons stated in the subjoined provisional classification, to 

 which is appended a key to the group of "Giganteae." In 

 this scheme an "x" in brackets is placed against those species 

 that are understood to be represented now at Kew by living 

 examples. 



The synonymy, which is often both obscure and intricate, 

 is not given under the species but is dealt with by itself; and 

 notes are given on imperfectly known species, also names to 

 be excluded. 



Conspectus. 



Furcraea, Ventenat in Bull. Soc. Philomat. no. 28 (Oct. 1793), re- 

 printed in Usteri Ann. xix. (1796) pp. 54-60; Haworth, Syn. (1812) 

 p. 73; Baker, Amaryllideae (1888) p. 198; Baillon, Hist, des Plantes 

 (1894) xiii. p. 64. 



Furaroea A. v. De Candolle (after 1806), Plantes Grasses no. 126; Ait. 



fil. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2 (1818) p. 302; Bot. Mag. 2250 (1821); 



Benth. & Plook. fil., Gen. PI. (1883) iii. 739; Hemsley, Biolog. Cent. 



Amer. (1884) iii. 352.* 

 Furcroya Rafinesque-Schmaltz, Somiolog. (1814) p. 31; Endlicher, Gen. 



(1837) i. 181. 



Fourcroya, Sprengel, Anleitung ed. 2 (1817) pt. ii. p. 238; Zuccarini in 

 Nova Acta Acad. Leop. Car. xvi. (1833) pt. ii. 664; Herbert, Amaryl- 

 lidaceae (1837), 57, 69, & 126-7; M. J. Roemer, Syn.(1847) iv. 21, 292; 

 Ft. zu Salm-Dyck in Bonplandia vii. (1859) pp. 85-87; Jacobi, "Ver- 

 suchetc." in Hamb. Zeit. xxi. (1864); Baker in Gard. Chron. (1879) 

 i. 623. 



Fourcroea Haworth, Supplem. (1819) p. 42. 



Funium, Willemet, Herb. Maurit. in Usteri Ann. (1796) xviii. p. 26. 

 Roedia, Hort. (non Kegel). 



Sect. I. Serrulatae. 



Leaf margins closely set with minute teeth; trunk conspicuous, some- 

 times arborescent. — Subgenus Roezlia, Baker in Amaryllideae, 1888, 

 p. 199. 



1. F. longaeva, Karwinski & Zuccarini in Nova Acta Acad. 



* Tab. 89-92 of the Biologia belong to Dioscorea, and not, as stated 

 by a clerical error in Baill., I. c, to Furcraea. 



