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Hab. unknown; a doubtful plant, the leaf margin some- 

 what recalling that of F. cubensis, Vent., but the perianth 

 lobes longer in proportion. 



Group B. Giganteae. 



Mature leaf more than forty inches long; scape (panicle included) 

 fifteen feet high and over (attaining 30 feet). 



5. F. cubensis, Ventenat in Bull. Soc. Philomat. Vendem- 

 iaire an 2 de la Rep. (= 1 Oct., 1793). 



Hab. Cuba: elsewhere probably introduced. C. Vrright 

 PI. Cub. no. 3250!; ex Hb. Jacquin. in Hb. Mus. Brit, (flower 

 only)!; Hb. Morales, f. Canizarcs, Flora Cubana (Habana 

 1901) ; Cicnfuegos, Prov. Santa Clara no. 297, R. Combs in 

 Trans. Acad. St. Louis, vii. 470; "vern. cajuin, Cajun Maya, 

 near Sisal, [Yucatan] cult.", Schott no. 809 in Hb. Mus. 

 Brit, (ident. not positive)!; vern. cahum-ci, Yucatan f. E. 

 Mairaux* in "Revue Americaine" (Brussels) 15 April, 1904; 

 vern. "Manila", East Caicos Island, f. Kew. Bull. 1890, 

 pp. 274-276 (ident. doubtful). 



6. F. tuberosa, Ait. fil. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2 (1811) ii. 303. 



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Hab. S. Domingo, Tussac Fl. des Antilles (1818), u. pp. 101- 

 103 (desc. in French of tuberosa, with fig. of "F. gigantea, 

 Vent." copied from De Candolle, Hist. PI. Succul. no. 126, 

 and name gigantea"); also Meyerhoff, f. Jacobi, Versuch, 

 etc. (Sep. Abdr. 1864-67), p. 282, sub " geminispiiia" ; Puerto 

 Rico (v. P. Hermann in Par. Bat. Prodr. 1688, sub. tit. 

 "Aloe americana, etc. . . . portoricensis"; also Sintenis 

 no. 482, A. A. Heller et conj. no. 317 (both flowers only and 

 ident. doubtful) in Herb. Kew.!; Virgin Islands, R. H. Schom- 

 burgk ex Martins (Beitrag, etc., p. 42) sub nom. "Agave 

 americana'' (?); Tortola (?) C. A. Barber; St. Christopher, 

 Barber; Nevis, J. Briggs in Hb. Kew.!; i\Iontserrat, Barber; 

 Antigua, Barber!; Dominica (? introduced), Barber; St. Vin- 

 cent (sub nom. F. gigantea var. Willemetiana) Kew Bull. 



* The writer is not aware whether this is original or based on Schott 's 

 (or Perrine's) reports. 



