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(b) atroviridis, Jacobi & Goepp. — Native country un- 

 known: introduced into Belgian gardens before 1866, . 



(c) Demouliniana, J acoh'i. — Colombia, .5-7000 ft, (?): in- 

 troduced into European gardens before 1867, . 



(d) Lindeni*, Ed. Andre.— Colombia 3-9000 ft.: 1868, 

 Linden. 



(e) valleculata, Jacobi— S. E. Brazil, about 3000 ft. (?) : cf. 

 Wettstein Veg. S. Brazil, pi. iv. 



(f) jmbescens, Tod. non Baker— Native country unknown: 

 Palermo Garden, before 1876, . 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 



The habit illustrations are from photographs made in 

 Antigua by Mr. C. A. Barber in 1892, preserved in the 

 Kew Herbarium. The others are from sheets in the same 

 collection photographed by Mr. Hutchinson, of the Her- 

 barium Staff, for this article. All are published by consent 

 of Colonel Prain, the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. 



Plate 1. — Acaulescent and shortly caulescent plants of Furcraea 

 tuberosa, of various ages, on Antigua. The old plant shown at the left 

 center has developed a rather long decumbent trunk. — Photographed by- 

 Barber. 



Plate 2. — Leaf of F. tuberosa, from Grenada, Hutchinson, 1889, in 

 Herb Kew., Xi ±- Flowers (of F. elegans ?), from Tobago, Eggers, no. 

 5706. 



Plate 3. — 1, Inner leaf and bulbils of F. tuberosa, horn the Grenadines 

 group of islands, Smith Brothers, in Herb. Kew., Xi ±; 2, Panicle frag- 

 ment of F. tuberosa, from Antigua, Barber, 1892. 



Plate 4. — Furcraea tuberosa, Ait., fil. Upper part of leaf, and flower, 

 of the type sheet (from Bishop Goodenough's herbarium), from the first 

 specimen known to have flowered in Europe; Kew Gardens, 1793, in 

 Herb. Kew., XI ±- 



* If distinct from Selloa this may prove to be flavoviridis. Hook, 

 which in that case should be restored as the name both of the Colombian 

 plant, and of the variegated garden form. 



