eas + 
96 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
long. Flowers yellow, about 85 mm. long: ovary scarcely 20 mm. 
long, fusiform: tube very open, 2-4 mm. deep: segments 8X 10-15 
mm. much exceeding the tube and approaching the ovary in length; 
filaments inserted in the throat, about 85 mm. long, nearly thrice as 
long as the segements. Capsules straw-colored, short, 1530 mm., 
stipitate and beaked; seeds 4 6 mm. 
Extreme western Texas.—Pl. 98, 99. 
Specimens examined:—Trxas. Sierra Blanca (Trelease, 
1892, 1900; Gilcrease; Mulford, 293, 293a, 1895,—the 
types). Rock Creek (Bigelow). 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 
All of the detail figures are of natural size and from photo- 
graphs by the author, unless otherwise noted. Acknowledg- 
ment of the source of the habit illustrations is made in con- 
nection with the explanation of them. 
Plate 73.—Agave applanata. 1, Habit, as grown in European 
gardens, from a photograph made by the author at La Mortola in 
1905. 2, Flowers, the lowest one with! the nearer size removed 
(La Mortola, Berger, 1907). 
Plate 74.—Agave applanata. Habit, as it occurs spontaneously, 
from a photograph by the author on the lava-beds of Limon; and 
spines and prickles from Limon material. 
Plate 75.—Agave Wislizeni. Type sheet, in the Garden herbarium. 
x %- 
Plate 76.—Agave Wislizeni. Flowers, capsules and seeds: type 
material. 
Plate 77.—Agave Wislizeni. Leaf of a plant grown at the Missouri 
Botanical Garden (No. 5/98) as received from Dr. Engelmann under 
this name. < %. 
Plate 78.—Agave Wislizeni. Leaf of a plant of ‘‘A. Noah” grown | 
at the Missouri Botanical Garden (No. 264/11/11), presented by Mr. 
A. G. Greiner, who received it from Mrs. Nickels. X %. 
Plate 79.—Agave Wislizeni. Reproduction of a habit picture pub- 
lished without name in the catalogue of tender plants issued from 
Fairmount Park in 1907. Mr. Oglesby Paul informs me that this 
plant, though not secured directly from Mrs. Nickels, is ‘‘A Noah”’ 
of her list, and that it proved bulbiferous at a later stage. 
Plate 80.—Agave parrasana. 1, Leaf of the type, from Mr. Berger, 
>< %. 2, Capsules, supposed to be of this species, collected in the 
Sierre de Parras with the type material. 
Plate 81.—Agave parrasana. Specimens grown at the Missouri 
Botanical Garden (No. 206/05/1), collected with the foregoing. 
, =. 4 
fy. 4 
