AGAVE RIGIDA — AGAVE ANGUSTIFOLIA. 



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to have been the Dillenian ^^Aloe barbadcnsls mitior'' for the 

 latter, on an identification ascribed to the younger Aiton, — 

 he himself not having seen the plant while in bloom, or any 

 part of the specimen from which the drawing was made. 

 Gawlcr is sometimes given as the authority for the name A, 

 J acquiniana , to designate this narrow-leaved A. lurida /3; 

 but in fact the name J acquiniana was first published for it by 

 Schultes * in 1829; and then in a qualified way "si a reliquis 

 diversa" so that the author of A. J acquiniana is sometimes 

 held to be Hooker,t who in 1859 applied the name to a plant 

 which had then flowered at Kew, and was described and fig- 

 ured, though unfortunately the apical spine of the leaf is not 

 well shown. The plant on which Hooker's description and 

 illustration were based had been sent by Mrs. General Mac- 

 Donald from Honduras, a dozen years earlier, in company 

 with Cereus M acdonaldiae j — which in a way indicates its na- 

 tive home unless her plants were secured from a garden, — 

 and Mr. Drummond writes me that derivatives of it are 

 not known to exist. 



Salm, whose Agave rigida is somewhat conformed in leaf- 

 description to the Furcraea rigida of Haworth, but who evi- 

 dently meant under this name the rigida of De Spin, and was 



Haworth's angustifolia 



ria 



did not feel sure that he really possessed it in his collection. 

 By a sHp, he changes the name to Jacquiniij under which, 

 when it flowered again at Kew in 1873,{ sucker-inflorescences 

 were reported. § Of late years, following this restoration of 

 it to its original unfortunate place, it has been mentioned 

 under the name A. lurida Jacquiniana, a number of times, 

 but without material addition to what was before known of 

 it. Here is aPDarentlv also to be referred A. excelsa of Baker 



describedlf from Kew Material 



Honduras, 



na of the 



not improbably representing the lost Jacquiniana of 

 Botanical Magazine account), Ricasoli and Terracciano, 



which scarcely 



description of Jacobi, who 

 in the Jacquiniana growing 



* Syst. Vt 727. j Bot. Mag. iii. 15. pi 5097. X Garden. 8 : 390. 



§ Gaxd. Chxon. n. s. 3 : 662. 



% Gard, Chron. n. s. 8: 397. (1877). 



