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MISSOURI BOTANICAL OARDEN. 



Leop. Car. (1833) xvi. 2, 666, t. 48; Bot. Mag. 5519 (1865) 



{Fourcroya). 



Hab. Among oak and arbutus thickets on the slopes of 

 Mt. Tanga, Oaxaca, Cent. America, about 10,000 ft. above 

 sea, Baron Karwinski; lofty ridges in Guatemala, Skinner, 

 f. Bateman in "Orchidaccae" (1843) letter press to tab. xvi. 

 (Brasavola glauca), with vignette illustration; near Sorata on 

 Illampu, Andes of Bolivia, alt. 9,000 ft. above sea, Mandon 

 no. 1192 in Hb. Kew. (perhaps an undescribed species closely 

 allied to longaeva). 



2. F. Bedinghausi, K. Koch in Wochenschrift (1863) vi. 

 234; Belg. Horticole,1863, pp. 327-330 with figure; Bot. Mag. 

 7170 (1891) (Fourcroya). [x] 



Hab. Mt. Acasca near the city of Mexico, Roezl 1860, f. 

 Bot. Mag. 1. c; Pedregal, Pringle no. 6801; Sierra de Pachuca, 

 do. 0991, both in Hb. Kew.; Serrania de Ajusco, do. 0669 

 (ident. not quite certain) in Herb. Kew. ! 



Sect. II. Spinosae. 



Leaf margin armed with conspicuous more or less distant prickles 

 (.prickles occasionally few or obsolete); trunk under six feet high, often 

 undeveloped. — Subgenus Furcraea proper, Baker 1. c. 



Group A. Minores.* 



Mature leaf less than forty inches long; scape (with panicle) fifteen feet 

 or under. 



3. F. uutlulata, Jacol)i in Abhandl. Schles.Gcsellsch. 1869, 

 p. 170; Bot. Mag. 6160 (1875) (Fourcroya). [x] 



Hab. unknown; Jacobi conjectured it might have been 

 collected (for Verschaftelt) by Ghicsbrecht in Chiapas or Ta- 

 basco (Eastern Mexico); "Bermuda" f. Hort. W. Bull. (1878) 

 in Herb. Kew.!; New Providence Island (Bahamas) vern. 

 "Manilla," Eggers no. 4194 (ident. doubt.) in Hb. Kew.! 



4. F. albispina, Hort. Panorm. ex Baker in Gard. Chron. 

 (1893) xiv. p. 584. 



* Cf. Jacobi, Nachtrag p. 174 sub F. Aitoni ("e minoribus conge- 

 nerum"). 



