﻿LITERATURE OF FURCRAEA WITH SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES. 63 



Agave vivipara, Arruda 

 (infra). 



Furcraea tuberosa, Ait. fil. 

 (1818). 



Agave tuberosa, Miller, 

 ( = preced.) f . Lamarck. 

 Agave tuberosa, Miller, 

 i.e. Furcraea tuberosa, 

 Ait. fil. 

 Furcraea (Fourcroya) 

 GEMiNiSPiNA, Jacobi, 

 i. e. Furcraea tuberosa, 

 Ait. fil. 

 Furcraea sp. (ex desc.) 



The synonymy however includes Rumpf, Herb. Amb. v. 

 t. 94 which is Agave Cantala, Roxb., and "Aloe americana 

 polygona" of C. Commelin (Praeludia, p. 65, fig. 15) which 

 was probably an Eu-Agave of the type of A. antillarum, 

 Descourtilz: in the first edition of the Species Plantarum 

 (1753), at i. 323, Commelin 's 'polygona' is the only actual 

 synonym; P. Hermann's "Aloe americana sobohf era " (Hort. 

 Lugd. 1687, pp. 16, 17) is cited, but in an inferior and doubt- 

 ful position, possibly because Commelin had expressly 

 declared that it was not the same as his "polygona.'' It 

 has been a question whence Linnaeus got his description of 

 the stamens for his ''vivipara," which is that of Furcraea; 

 there is nothing in the text of the Praeludia to suggest it, 

 but the illustration might be squared by a student who had 

 never seen the living plants with Hughes' account of the 

 Barbados Silk-grass (see A. vivipara, Maycock below), pub- 

 lished in 1750. 



Great confusion has been caused by the supposition, not 

 yet quite extinct, that the production of bulbils in the Aga- 

 veae is a definite specific character. That Linne's immedi- 



suhinermis, M. Roemer Syn. = 



Ens. 289 (1847). 

 tuberosa, Phil. Miller Card. - 



Diet. ed. viii. (1768) also 



Sprengel Syst. ii. 79 



(1825). 



tuberosa, Lamarck Enc. = 

 (1784). 



tuberosa, Aiton in Hort. Kew. = 

 (1 ed.) (1789). 



tuberosa [var.] /3, Aiton in = 

 Hort. Kew. (1 ed.) (1789). 



vivipara. Linn. Sp. PI. (ed. 2) = 



