AGAVES OF THE GROUP APPLANATAE. 87 
1868 : 317; 1888: 317; 1900: 368.—Menand, Cat. Pl. 
Albany. 1869: 18; 1877: 19.—J. Verschaffelt, Cat. 14: 
73; 18: 35.— Ellemeet, Belg. Hort. 21:116.—Haage & 
Schmidt, Cat. 1873: 14.—De Cock, Cat. 10: 7.—Baker, 
Gard. Chron. n. s. 7: 717. f. 115; Handbook Amaryllid. 
173; Kew Bull. 1892: 3, and Add. Ser. 2: 219.—Rica- 
soli, Bull. Soc. Tose. Ort. 3; 213. f. 21; Utilita dei Giar- 
dini d’Acclimazione. 7.— Peacock, List. 1— Von der 
Heiden, Cat. 1879: 3, 4, f; 1880:11. /.— Viviand- 
MorelaLyon Hort. 1881: 341.—Todaro. Hort. Panormit. 
2:29. pl. 30; Bot. Centralbl. 46: 190.—Hemsley, Biol. 
Centr.-Amer. 3; 339.— Hanbury, Gard. Chron. n. s. 
20; 54.—Terracciano, Primo Contributo. 48; Boll. Ort. 
Bot. Palermo. 2: 125.—Nicholson, Dict. 1: 38; Dict. Prat. 
1:79.—Taplin, Gard. & For. 4: 261.—Franceschi, Gard. 
& For. 8:228.—Graebener, Gartenwelt. 8: 49. f.—Kew 
Hand List Tend. Monocot. 107.—Roland-Gosselin, Rev. 
Hort. 71: 255.—Weber in Bois, Dict. 51.—Berger, Garten- 
welt. 2: 593. #.—Simon, Cat. [1900]: 15.—Rodigas, Se- 
maine Hort. n. s. 4: 279, 281. 476. f. 91.—Monatsschr. f. 
Kakteenkunde. 3: 115.—Rose in Bailey. Cyclop. 1: 34.— 
Segura, El Maguey. 4ed. 73.—Trelease, Wiesner Festschr. 
355.—Miller’s D. Girtn.-Zeit. 1903: 528. ff.; 1905: 
528.—Rev. Hort. (Marseille). 1907 : 82.—Endlich, Bei- 
hefte Tropenpflanzer. 9: 279.—Miiller, Bot. Zeit. Abt. I. 
67: 116. 185, 138-9. pl. 2. f. 20. 
A, aplanata Koch, Belg. Hort. 1864: 303. 
A. applanaat Griph, Lyon Hort. 1879: 209. f. 
A. applanata major v. Jacobi, Versuch. 219. 1866.— Peacock, 
List. 1. 
A. applanata subnivea v. Jacobi, 1. c. 219." 1866. 
Little cespitose, acaulescent. Leaves nearly smooth, glaucous, 
oblong-lanceolate, gradually acute, very openly concave, 10-15 X 100- 
150 em., stiffly erect-spreading: spine often somewhat flexuous, grad- 
ually tapered, from purplish slate-colored becoming dull gray, 6-7 X 
35-45 mm., very long-decurrent: prickles similarly colored, 25-35 or 
even 50 mm. apart, 5-8 mm. long, straight or for the most part gently 
recurved or somewhat hooked, elongated-triangular, abruptly lenticu- 
larly widened to 20 or 30 mm. at base or confluent throughout in a 
slightly concaved horny margin about 1 mm. wide which, like the 
spine, is sparsely granular. Inflorescence 8-10 m. high, the upper 
