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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



Hasskarl says that his plant, received at Buitenzorg from 

 Groningen as "F. tuherosa," squared exactly with Jacquin's 

 description of Agave cubensis except that Jacquin gives the 

 leaves as " ciliate-aculeate, " which he says might be due to 

 the description having been taken from imperfectly devel- 

 oped specimens in European gardens. Jacquin's descrip- 

 tion, written doubtless from the plant discovered by himself 

 in Cuba, gives the leaf-margin as " ciliato-spinose, " whereas 

 that of tuherosa is "dentato-spinose." From Hasskarl's 

 own description he had evidently before him F. tuherosa. 



cubensis var. Lindeni, Kew = Furcraea (Fourcroya) 

 Hand-List Tend. Monocot. Lindeni, Ed. Andre 



1897. (supra). 



foetida,^ Ha worth (1812). = Furcraea gigantea, Ven- 



tenat (1793). 



gigantea, Baker in Amaryll. = Furcraea tuberosa. Ait. 

 (1888). fiL 



The description belongs partly to F. gigantea, partly to 

 F. tuberosa, but mainly to the latter. 



tuherosa, Hasskarl in Retzia = Furcraea gigantea, Ven- 

 ii. 16 (1856). tenat. 



FuRCROEA gigantea, Redoute = Furcraea (Fourcroya) 

 in Hist. PI. Succ. (post cubensis var. inermis, 



1806). Baker in Bot. Mag. 6543 



(1881)? 



The letter-press, as is carefully noted by De CandoUe, is 

 taken from Ventenat, but the plate differs somewhat; it may 

 have been based on Jacquin's figure of Agave joetida, Linn., 

 but it agrees, on the whole, with the form above noted. 



gigantea, Redouts in Liliac^es = Furcraea gigantea, 



viii. 476 (1816). Ventenat. 

 • The text, however, relates partly to F. tuherosa, Ait. fil. 



gigantea, Tussac in Fl. des = Furcraea tuberosa, Ait. fil. 

 Antilles (1818). 



