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Wright^ and that a sample of aloe fiber was submitted to the 

 insular government and transmitted to England in November^ 

 .1809; — but it is not clear that americana is not referred to. 

 The history of A. Jacquiniana at Kew (on which Mr. Baker's 

 description of A. cxcelsa seems also to have been based) makes 

 Central America the probable home of Agave angusHfolia. 

 No evidence appears as to the date or manner of its intro- 

 duction into India or the West Indian island of St. Vincent; 

 but the omission of anything that could pass for it from 

 the books of Hughes (1750), May code (1830) and Schomburgk 

 (1848) indicates that it is of rather recent introduction into 

 Barbados, where, like Yucca aloijolia, it is called Spanish 

 needles. Its synonymy is as follows: 



Agave angustifolia Haworth, Syn. PL Succul. 72. (1812); 



78. (1819); Revis. PI. Succul. 35. (1821).— Link/Enum. 

 BeroL 1:334. (1821).— Steudel, NomencL 18. (1821); 

 2 ed. 3G. (1841),— Sprengel, Syst. 2:79. (1825).— 

 Schultes, Syst.T^: 727. (1829).— Herbert, Amaryll. 128. 

 (1837).— ?Bojer, Ilort. Maurit. 353. (1837).— Don, Sweet's 

 .Hort.Brit. 3ed. 704. (1839).— Dietrich, Syn. PL 3 : 1102. 



(1840).— Rocmer, Ensatae. 291. (1847).- Kunth; Enum. 

 5 : 837. (1850).— Koch, Wochenschr. Ver. Beford. Gar- 

 tenbau. 1860:48; 1865:101; Fh des Jard. 1861: 

 147; Belg. Ilort. 1862 : 309.— ?Rept. Internal Hort. 

 Exh., London.. 296. (18G6).— ?Ellcmeet, Belg. Ilort. 

 . 1871 : 121.— ?Hanbury, Gard. Chron. n. s, 20 : 54. (1883). 

 — Drummond & Train, Agric. Ledger. 1906 : 88. — Tre- 

 lease, Wiesncr-Festschr, 336. (1908). 



A. augustljolia Peacock, List. 3. (1878). 



?.l. rlgida angustifolia Kew Hand List Tenil.Monocot. 119. (1897). 



?A. lurida /? Alton, Hort. Kew. 1 : 472 (1789). — ?WiIIdenow, Sp. PI. 



194. (1799). — Alton fil., Hort. Kew. 2 ed. 2:302. (1811).— 

 Poiret, Encycl., Suppl. 1:240. (1810).— Schultes, Syst. 7^:726. 

 ' (1829). 



A. lurida Jacquin, Obs. Bot. 4 : 94. pi. 1. (1790). — Targioni Tozzctti, 

 Ann. Mus. Imp. Fircnzo. 2-: 25, 31-o. fi. 6. (1810). — Beatson, 

 Tracts on St. Helena. 29G. (181G). — Bortoloni, Giorn. Acadico. 

 21:189. (1824).— Steudel, Nomencl. 2 ed. 36, (1841). — Salm, 



Bonplandia. 7:90. (1859).— ?M[orrcn], Belg. Hort. 1863:249. 



