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femineum includentes. & Alabastra ovata, demum ovoideo-globosa 
subacuta. Calycis segmenta 4, valyata, extra puberula ; pedicelli 
puberuli, 2 mm. longi, Petala 0, Stamina circa 30; filamenta 
libera receptaculo subgloboso affixa glandulis oblongis dense pubes- 
centibus intermixta; antherae introrsae, 2-loculares; loculi ovati 
connectivo latiusculo breviter producto parum sejuncti. Q Alabastra 
globosa. Sepala 5, triangularia ovatave, acuta, puberula, imbricata. 
Discus crassus, explanatus, margine crenulato glaber, supra ubi 
ab ovario liber dense setosus. Ovarium 3-loculare, dense fusco- 
setosum, loculis 1-ovulatis ; styli basi minopere comnati, subreflexi, 
2-fidi, extra fusco-pubescentes ; intus versus basin pubescentes 
superne stigmatici, fimbriato-papillosi. 
ropicaL Arrica. Sierra Leone, Afcelius, 29; Cameroons: 
Bipinde, Zenker, 3040. 
L—AGAVE LURIDA. 
J. R. Drummonp. 
while the chief plantation Agave of Yucatan i inari 
t s ordinarily propa- 
gnied in the same way as Perrine’s species ; the asian object 
eing to keep his plant from “poling” as long as he cap, he 
