AGAVE RIGIDA 



AGAVE ANGUSTIFOLIA. 



287 



4 



been found in Indian gardens about 1892 (the A. angustifoUa 

 variegata of French gardens some thirty years earlier perhaps 



been A. picta) 



name 



A 



inated 



about 1895, has been called by Mr. Watson 



A. Woodrowi after its discoverer, who himself called it A. 

 Cookei. This distinct horticultural form, which possesses 



mardnal 



ginal stripes of the original variety 



milky, like the submar 

 •the chlorenchvma beinj 



overlaid by several layers of etiolated cclls.t 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 



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Plate 29. — Agave rigida. — A reduced photograpliic copy of Commclin's 

 illustration of ''Aloe americana ex Vera Cruce foliis angustioribus minus 

 glaucis/' in Hort. Amstelodam. Rar. Plant. Descr. et Icones. 2. p?. 17, 



Plate 'iQ.— Agave angustifoUa. — A reduced photographic copy of Tar- 

 gioni Tozzetti's illustration of Agave lurida in Ann. Mus. Imp. Firenze. 



22. vl 6. 



Plate 31- — Agave angustifoUa.— Leavos of Agave lurida as grown today 



for hedges in St. Helena, X i- Broadway material. 



Plate 32.— Agave angustifoUa. — Leaves, capsules and seeds of the Agave 

 lurida of St. Helena, natural size. Broadway material. 



Plate 33. — Agave angustifoUa, — Flowers of Agave lurida as represented 

 in Jacquin's herbarium at the Vienna Hofmuseum, natural size. Photo- 

 graphed in 1905, by permission. 



Plate 34. — Agave angustifoUa. — Flowers and leaf detail, natural size, of 

 Agave excelsa Baker; the former from material pressed at La Mortola by 

 Mr. Bergcr in 1905, the latter from a fresh leaf received from Mr. Berger 



in 1907. 



Plate 35. — Agave angustifoUa marginata, — Young leaves. At the rights 



the typical variety; at the left, the form Woodrowi, natural size. From 



Kcw material, communicated by Col. Prain in 190S. 



*A. angustifoUa marginata Trelease, Wiesner-Festschrift. 343. phS, 

 (1908).— It also occurs in the Singapore garden under the name A.superba. 



fThis may be known as A. angustifoUa marginata Woodrowij with the 

 synonymy A. vivipara var. nova, A. Woodrowi and A. Cookei of the Wies- 

 ner-Festschrift account. 



