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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



portions of a Furcraea when it has poled in a garden, unless 

 tliesc prove constant over several generations; even then, as 

 Mr. Baker has well pointed out, it would not be advisable to 

 lay stress on the dwarf condition unless other characters 

 accompany. 



The original ''Selloa" of K. Koch has only a few days prec- 

 edence of ''flavoviridis," and was founded on a plant (that 

 had not flowered) at Sans-souci, but the name is well estab- 

 lished as attaching to the form recognized at Kew as Selloa, 

 and on the whole the best course seems to be to treat "fla- 

 voviridis" for the present as a synonym of F. Selloa, until 

 fresh examination can bo made of flowering examples. To 

 complete the matter, Selloa and -flavoviridis" should also be 

 compared with "Lindeni." It is not impossible that the 

 Dyck "tuherosa" may have been "flavoviridis"; the native 

 country is not really known in cither case, for the mention 

 under Bot. Mag. 51G3 of Rcppcr's Mexican collections does 

 not relate to " flavoviridis'' but to a different plant which 

 may have been the same as "cubensis var. inermis" of Baker 

 (see F. Commelyni). 



"F. gigantea", Wcttstein Veg. Bild. Sud. Brazil (1906) pi. 

 iv. (non Ventenat). 



This name is attached to a Furcraea which figures in an 

 illustration from a water color sketch by F. von Kerner of the 

 ''Edge of the Savanna in the dry season near Itapetininga, " 

 a place in Sao Paulo, in southeast Brazil, about 25° S. Lat. 



It can hardly be F. giganiea, Vent., and may be an unde- 

 scribed species. 



F. LiNDENi, Ed. Andre in 111. Hort. xxi. (1874) pi. 186, p. 

 167. (Fourcroya) . [x] 

 M. Andre cites Jacobi ''in Linden Catalogue," and notes 

 that the plant was brought to Linden in 1868 from near Cali 

 in the Cauca valley of Colombia (see also "Tour de Monde" 

 xxxiv. 1875-6, p. 133), where it existed in smafl quantity. 

 It may be doubted whether this handsome plant has not, like 

 Agave americana var. varicgata, a cultivated origin, and so 



