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twice as long as the tube and approaching the ovary in length: fila- 
ments inserted about the upper fourth of the tube, 60-90 mm. long 
and about three times as long as the segments. Capsules thin-walled, 
oblong, 20 >< 60mm., long-beaked, but not stipitate: seeds 5-6 7-8 mm. 
Northwestern Lower California, in the coast region.— 
Pachyacantha,—thick-spined, because of the terminal leaf 
spine.-—Map (D). Pl. 27, 28. 
Specimens examined:—Punta Banda, Todos Santos Bay 
(Orcutt, Jan. 24, 1883,—the type). Cape Colnett (Brande- 
gee, May 1893). 
Agave Goldmaniana Trelease. 
Aspect of A. Shawii. Caulescent, the more or less reclinate trunk 
leafy throughout. Leaves smooth, gray?, lance-ovate or lanceolate, 
acuminate, openly concave, about 10 50 em., stiffly erect-spreading: 
spine nearly straight, half conical, dull blackish gray, 7 40 mm., 
very openly grooved almost to the end, long-decurrent: prickles sim- 
ilarly colored, 15-80 mm. apart, often 10 mm. long, rather gently 
variously curved, heavily triangular, lunately widened into the little- 
repand margin or confluent. Inflorescence 5-7 m. high, the upper 
third broadly ovoid-paniculate: Scape stout: bracts deltoid, scarcely 
imbricated, erect; branches rather numerous, nearly horizontal, shortly 
tripartite: pedicels scarcely 5 mm. long. Flowers deeply funnel-form, 
as shown by photographs. Capsules narrowly oblong-pyriform, about 
20 X 50 mm., beaked and somewhat stipitate, not very thick-walled: 
seeds glossy, 4 6 mm. 
Eastern Lower California, in the desert.—Goldmaniana,— 
E. A. Goldman, an experienced student, collector and photog- 
rapher of the plants and animals of tropical North America. 
Yubai (Nelson & Goldman, 7151, 1905).—Map (E.) Pl. 29-31. 
Entirely out of the region affected by other allies of A. 
Shawii, and in the desert association of A. N. elsoni, ete. 
AGAVE AUREA Brandegee, Proc. Cal. Acad. ii. 2: 207. 1889; 
—Weber, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 8 : 223. 
Agave sp. Brandegee, Proc. Cal. Acad. ii. 2: 119. 
? Agave Maguey del Campo. Simon, Cat. [1900]: 16. 
Not cespitose, acaulescent. Leaves smooth, grayish green, lance- 
oblong, acuminate, openly concave, becoming 10-15 < 75-100 cm. : 
outcurved-ascending; spine conical or somewhat awl-shaped, slightly 
curved, from glossy chestnut sometimes becoming dull gray, 3-5 
20-30 mm., rather narrowly grooved below the middle, decurrent for 
about its own length; prickles similarly colored, mostly 10-20 mm. 
apart, very unequal, 4-8 mm. long, triangular, lunately enlarged onto 
