282 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



at Kcw; and A. ixtlioidcs Hooker is rather a low plant of 

 this than the true ixtlioidcs of Lemaire or the Jourcroydes of 

 Lcniaire or Jacobi, though the end-spine; if so^ is very 

 uncharacteristically drawn. 



An obviously very similar plant lias long been cultivated 

 and escaping in Tndia^ where Wight"^ figured it with the er- 

 roneous name A. vivipcra or viviparaj under which it has been 

 cultivated or mentioned in print (often confounded with 

 Baker's vivipam, — .4. Canlala). This Agave vivipara of Wight, 

 designated Wight ii by Col. Prainf a few years since, has been 

 described recently under the latter name by Drummond and 

 Train, I who do not overlook its possible identity with A. 

 Jacquiniana. § 



In 1890 an Agave was reported by Hart^ for the West Indian 

 islands St. Vincent and Barbados, as a very distinct variety 

 of A. rigida (in the sense of Engelmann and Baker, therefore 

 supposedly one of the henequen or ixtle forms); and the 

 name A. rigida clongata has also been applied** to the same 

 plant. Specimens of this form, at Kew, have been recognized 

 by Mr. Drummond as being A. WigJUiiy whicli is therefore 

 believed by himtj to be a native of the Antilles, though my 

 own observation of it in Barbados scarcely warrants the con- 

 clusion that it is more than a hedge-row introduction. It is 

 doubtful if it can be considered to be Indigenous near the city 

 of Vera Cruz.lt 



Analysis of what is known of Agave lurida ^ Ait., A. 

 angustifolia Haw., A. Jacquiniana Schult.,§§ A. lurida Jac- 

 quiniana Bak,, and A, Wightii Dr. and Prain, or their sev- 



* Toon. Plant. Ind. Or. 6: 18. pi SOS4. 



fProc, Agr.-Hort. Soc. Madras. 1904: 130, 137; 1905: 38. 

 X Agric, Ledger, 1900 : 78, 91, 102, 105, 128, 139, 147. 

 § Lx. 140. 



*j[ Rept. Trinidad Garden. 1890^ fide Gard. Mag. 35: 160, etc. 



** Bull. But. Card. Grenada. 30 : 285. (1893). 



tt Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. IS: 27. (1007). 



j j Cf. Drununond & Prain, Agric. Ledger. 1906: 123. 



§§ But not a plant so-called byWeisse (e. g.j Gartenflora. 20:249. 

 1871) and others which, though of the fetid-flowered Sisalanae group, is 

 a very large-leaved distinct species which as yet is known only in or 

 about gardens. 



