Liriogame. Cl. 4. Sarmentacee. Orv. 12. AGAVER. 79 
lanceolate: marcescens. Filamenta apice tubi inserta, crassa, lon- 
gissime exserta, subulata. Anthere longe. Stylus cylindricus, 
plus minus altitudine filamentorum. Stigma lobis brevissimis obo- 
vatis. Herbe inter Crops Americe, hodie in Sicilia, Promontorio 
Bon: Spei jus civitatis adepte. Folia sepe glauca, 4—7-pedalia, $ in 
rosam conferta, lineari-lanceolata ta, margine spinosa, planiuscula, dura 
carnosa, usque ad florescentiam perennia. Flores virides, erecti, naie 
fetidissimi. Panicula oblo onga. Pedunculus 14-30-pedalis ; basi 
crassitie femoris, ramis protensis, apice densissime Jlorigeris. Pedi- 
celli plus minus secundi, apice articulati. Bractee 1-rie. Species 
5. mericana L. Vivipara L. Flaccida Haw. Lurida Mrz. fig. 
in Bot. Mag. No. 1522. Pyramidalis MS. gue Lurida Jace. Coll. 4, 
94. 
a Agave a a strictly natural Groupe, though their Flowers 
differ ably in structure and the Pericarpium varies in 
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the Stem either dies down to the ground, or sends out 2 or S ibisdhle 
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Fourcroya has been most justly detached aby VENTENAT, having pen- 
dulous Flowers, 6 distinct Petals, and very thick broad Filaments. 
Polianthes, its Flowers ms tin in pairs, "but £ they are far more nume- 
rous; and in its deciduous corolla it differs from every Plant of the 
and pus out in nya with a long Spike of Flowers in pairs 
which are so exe ant during the night, ees it is called 
of the Glo be. The next Genus, Manfreda, is so et after an 
ancient writer on Simples, whose work is in the Parisian Library; 
this Plant has a great look of some Alves, especially when its Leaves 
are P differing essentially from Agave in its simple Spike of 
Flowers with 2 Bractes to each; a more tubular Corolla curved 
