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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



covery or introduction. One plant (included in the Kew 

 Garden Hand List of Tender Monocotyledons 1897 as F. 

 Desiderantii) having died out is not accounted for in the pre- 

 ceding partS; and therefore omitted. 



Admitted Species of Furcraea. 



1. tuberosa, Ait. fil.^Haiti, and (introduced?) E. Antilles, 

 about sea-level: before 151(3, . 



2. gigantea, Vent.— Costa Rica, and (often introduced?) ' 

 N. & S. coasts of S. America, 0-3000 ft.: 1529, Oviedo. 



3. elegans, Tod.— Tobago, & N. E. Brazil to Colombia 

 (cult.) about sea-level (?) : 1648, anon, correspondent of De 

 Laet (?). 



4. cubensis, Vent.— Cuba (also cult. Yucatan), 0-1000 ft.: 

 before 1760, Jacquin. 



5. undulata, Jacobi— Central America (?): introduced into 

 English gardens before 1768 by Ph. Miller. 



6. longaeva, Zucc. & Karw.— Mexico, Guatemala, & Bo- 

 livia* 9-10,000 ft.: before 1831, Karwinski. 



7. Selloa, K. Koch.— Guatemala to Colombia, 3-9000 ft.: 

 before 1860, Warszcwicz (?). 



8. Bedinghaiisi, K. Koch. — Mexico and adjoining Re- 

 publics, about 6000 ft.: 1800, Roezl. 



9. albispina, J. G. Baker — Native country unknown: Pal- 

 ermo Bot. Card., before 1893, . 



10. macrophylla, Hook. fil. — Bahamas, etc. (an escape?) : 

 Morris, also Hart (before 1889); Colombia? Chile? 



Imperfectly Known but Possibly Valid Species. 



(a) inermis, J. G. Baker (pro var.) in Bot. Mag. 6543 

 (1881)— Venezuela (?): before 1688 (?), .f 



* The Bolivia form, though of the same group with longaeva, may- 

 prove specifically distinct. 



t If this was the "Aloe americana radice tuberosa minor non spinosa" 

 of the Par. Bat. Prodr. of P. ITormann (ed. S. W. A. 1689): it may 

 po^isibly also be the Agavs aspera of Jacquin. 



