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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



ate followers looked on his ^' Agave vivipara" as a Furcraea 

 is proved by Willdenow's Herbarium. 



vivipara, Phil. Miller Gard. = Furcraea (Fourcroya) 



Diet. ed. viii. (1768). undulata, Jacobi? 



mmpara, Lamarck Enc.Meth. = Agave vivipara Linn. Sp. 



i. 53 (1784). PI. (ed. 2). 



The remarks however take in F. tuberosa, Ait. fi\.:"A. 

 vivipara" of the Illustrations 235, fig. 1 (1793) is simply 

 copied from Hermann's figure of his "Aloe americana sobo- 

 hfera" and goes back therefore to the first edition of the Sp. 

 Plantar um. 



vivipara, Willdenow Sp. PI. = Furcraea sp. (gigantea, 



ii. 193 (1799). Ventenat?) 



The specimen does not enable the writer to say more as to 

 the species. 



vivipara Sesse & Moc. in Fl. = Furcraea cubensis, Vent. 

 Mexic. ed. Ramirez, p. 87. 



The plant was collected (by Mocifio?) between Havana 

 and Guanabacoa, and the description answers to F. cubensis. 

 It seems doubtful if the Island plants included in the Flora 

 Mexicana were jointly collected; the notes on '^vivipara" 

 indicate but one observer. 



vivipara, Arruda da Camara = Furcraea sp. (ex descr.) 

 (1810). 



The native South American name given in Arruda's tract 

 (Caroata assu) possibly belonged to a Bromeliad; the Por- 

 tuguese "Piteira" is believed to be usually applied to an Eu- 

 Agave. It is doubtful how far Arruda was dealing with an 

 actual Pernambuco plant, and not simply fitting in accounts 

 by prior authors. It is quite possible, as Schultes has sug- 

 gested, that Brotero's Fourcroya agavephylla may have been 

 Arruda's ''Agave vivipara," but Brotero seems to have had 

 material or reports from other parts of the Brazils before him 

 also. 



vivipara, May cock in Fl. = Furcraea tuberosa, 

 Barbadensis, p. 134 (1830). Ait. fil. 



