﻿LITERATURE OF FURCRAEA WITH SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES. 53 



that he quotes " Willd. Sp. PI. 2. 193" and that the plant indi- 

 cated by this reference is the Agave cuhensis of Jacquin, but 

 he further cites F. tuber osa /3 of the second edition of the 

 Hortus Kewensis, which is a different species altogether, 

 with the result that in England "F. cubensis" has been 

 usually apphed to a plant which approaches tuberosa, cer- 

 tainly, but is probably in fact F. Selloa, K. Koch, and in any 

 case is not the Cuban species of Jacquin. There is no proof 

 that Mr. Baker's plant is derived from any of the established 

 species; it may be the Agave aspera of Jacquin (Enum. Vin- 

 dob. App. 307), and the "F. gigantea" of the figure (but not 

 the letterpress which is taken from Ventenat) in the Plantes 

 Grasses 126 bis, repeated in the Flore des Antilles of Tussac 

 (ii, 25, 26) for the San Domingo plant which is actually F. 

 tuberosa, Ait. 



F. Demouliniana,* Jacobi inHamb. Zeit, xxiii. (1867), p. 310. 



Not now apparently in cultivation; supposed to have been 

 brought from Mexico by Galeotti; the description reads like 

 that of a monstrosity, but the large bulbils recall Triana's 

 specimen from the Colombian Andes previously mentioned. 



F. DEPAUPERATA, Jacobi in Hamb. Zeit. xxii. (1866), p. 411. 



Based on a single specimen. Possibly identical with 

 Baker's albispina, but it is particularly unsafe in this genus 

 to identify plants from descriptions solely without living 

 specimens or at least reliable herbarium material. 



F. FLAVOViRiDis, Hook. in Bot. Mag. 5163 (Feb. 1860) 

 (Fourcroya). 



The writer cannot separate this from F. Selloa of the Kew 

 Garden and Herbarium except by the very large flowers in 

 one specimen which agree with the illustration but arc prob- 

 ably abnormal, and by the generally small proportions of the 

 flowering plant; it is hardly safe, however, to rely on the pro- 



* There are young plants received at Kew under this name but 

 they are altogether doubtful. 



