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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



1892, p. 101; Bcquia (Grenadines), Smith brothers in Hb. 

 Kew.!; Grenada, Sir Hely Hutchinson in Hb. Kew.!; 

 Barbados, J. D. Bovell, Hb. Kew.! Cult, in Hort. Kew. 1793,' 

 ex Hb. Goodenough. in Hb. Kew., aho Mus. Brit.! 



7. F. gigantea, Ventenat inBull.Soc. Philomat. 1793, and 

 Usteri Ann. xix. pp. 54-60; Bot. Mag. 2250 (1821) {Fur- 

 croea) ; Belg. Horticole 1860, p. 219, pi. 34. [x] 



Had. Costa Rica, vern. "cabuya" Ovicdo (1529)?; Do. 5 

 vern. "cabuya olancho," Biolley in Boletin Soc. Nac. de 

 Agricultura [Costa Rica] no. 5, 10 Aug., 1906, pp. 74-81 with 

 fig.; Chiriqui volcano in Panama, Seemann, Voy. ''Herald" 

 p. 210, no. 973 (sub nom. F. tuberosa, Ait.) ; also cult, in prov. 

 Veraguas (ident. not certain) ; " Panama v. 842 vulgo cabuya, " 

 Seemann in Hb. Mus. Brit.!; Isle of Cacagual, Darien, See- 

 mann, Voy. ''Herald" p. 216, no. 972; La Paila [upper Cauca] 

 Holton, Fl. Neogranadina-Caucana no. 149 in Hb. Kew.!; 

 Curasao, Boerhaave in Ind. Alt. PI. Hort. Lugd. Bat. (1720) 

 ii. 129; Isles dc Salut, French Guiana (1854), sub nom. "Agave 

 vivipara" Sagot no. 557 in Hb. Kew.!; Trinidad, Fendlcr no. 

 852 in Hb. Kew. (ident. doubtful)!; Martinique, Hahn no. 

 1122, in Hb. Kew. & Hb. Mus. Brit.! also Duss, "Fl. Phan. 

 des Antilles Frang." in Ann. de I'lnst. Col. de Marseille iii. 

 (1896) 558-9, no. 3602 (not seen); Guadeloupe in hedges, 

 etc., Duss (1. c. no. 2125, not seen). 



Introduced, Isle dc France (sub nom. "Agave foetida = 

 Aloes vert"), Aublet, Fl. de Guiane, etc. i. 305; loc. incert. 

 Hb. Willdenow. in Mus. Berlin sub nom. "Agave vuipara"\; 

 Mascarene Islands, with printed ticket "Fl. Maur. ii. no.' 

 373" (andnamed " Aloe viridis," mUS.) inllb. Kew.!; Maur- 

 itius, ex Hb. Bojer. in Hb. Ke\Y.(" Agave vivipara") \ Ayres 

 no.^ 26 (type of Baker Fl. Mauritius, p. 367), also Ayres (bis) 

 "hills above Port Louis, very conunon throughout the islands," 

 both in Hb. Kew.!; Central Madagascar, Baron no 2302 

 1993 (?), 2638 (?) in Hb. Kew.!; Seychelles, E. P. Wright in 

 Hb. Mus. Brit, (flowers only, ident. & loc. doubt.)!; Sibpur 

 (Calcutta Bot. Gard.) 1904-5!!; also (flowers only, ident. & 

 loc. doubt.), "Jamaica," Morris, also Hart no. 1534 (prob- 

 ably in either case from a garden). 



