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Hab. Mexico, introduced by Verschaffelt in 1862. Tlie typa is described 

 from a plant of Mr. J. T. Peacock's that flowered at Kew in April, 1880. We 

 have a photograph from Dr. Todaro of a tuf fc that bore 10 — 12 spikes simul- 

 taneously in the Palermo Botanic Garden in 1885. I cannot, by the description, 

 separate A. MaUjretiana Jacobi, Monogr. 215. 



Group 3. SUBMARGINAT^. 



24. A. puMiLA Hort. De Smet. — Acaulescent. Leaves 7-8 in a 

 dense rosette, an inch high, 2:^-2^ in. diam., ovate, thick, rigid, 

 more or less ascendmg, 1-1^ in. broad, |— | in. long, narrowed 

 suddenly to a weak dark end-spine \ in. long, which is decurved as 

 a narrow line half-way down the blade ; marginal lorickles distant, 

 lanceolate, hooked, defiexed, f-^ in. long. Inflorescence unknown. 



Hab. Probably Mexico. Our Kew plant of this curious very dwarf species 

 was received from De Smet in 1879, and in eight years has not increased in size 

 materially. It produces offsets freely about the base. 



25. A. [EiUKjave) Shawii Engelm. Notes, 26, tabs. 2 and 3. 

 — Acaulescent. Leaves 50-60 or more, oblong-spathulate, 8-10 in. 

 long, 3^-4| in. broad at the middle, dull green, slightly glaucous, 

 narrowed to a brown pungent end-spine an inch long, the horny 

 border decurrent, the edge below it furnished with copious upcurved 

 lanceolate brown teeth ^-^ in. long. Peduncle 8-12 ft. Panicle 

 thyrsoid, about 2 ft. long and broad ; branches stout, 4-9 in. long. 

 Flowers 3-3|- in. long, greenish yellow ; tube broadly funnel-shaped, 

 i-f in. long ; segments an inch or more. Stamens half as long 

 again as the segments. Capsule oblong-trigonous, cuspidate, 

 2^-2f in. long. 



Hab. Dry hills bordering the Pacific at the south-west corner of California, 

 discovered by Dr. Parry in 1850. Named by Dr. Engelmann after Mr. Henry 

 Shaw, who founded and endowed the Botanic Garden at St. Louis, Missouri. 

 In 1885 Mr. Shaw kindly sent us a set for the Kew Herbarium of the leaves of 

 all the Agaves he had in cultivation. Introduced into cultivation about 1875. 



26. A. {Euagave) Deserti Engelm. Notes, 22. — Acaulescent. 

 Leaves few in a rosette, oblanceolate, ^-1 ft. long, 1^-2 in. broad 

 above the middle, very glaucous, deeply concave on the face, with a 

 long slender brown end- spine decurrent to about the middle of the 

 edge, both this and the unbordered lower half of the leaf being 

 furnished with crowded strong hooked horny lanceolate prickles 

 i-i in. long. Peduncle slender, reaching 6-10 ft. Panicle 

 thyrsoid ; branches very short ; lower horizontal. Flower yellow, 

 under 2 in. long ; tube J-^ in. long and broad ; segments oblong, 

 f in. long. Stamens twice as long as the segments. 



Hab. Eastern base of the mountains of Southern California, discovered by 

 Lieut. Emory in 1840. Introduced into cultivation about 1875. 



27. A. [FAiagave) Huachucensis Baker. — Leaves very thick and 

 rigid, oblong, 15-16 in. long, ^ ft. broad at the middle, the brown 

 pungent end-spine above an inch long, decurrent as a horny border 

 to the middle of the blade, both it and the rest furnished with 

 copious defiexed brown prickles, the upper ones lanceolate-deltoid, 

 i-i- in. long, the lower growing regularly gradually smaller. 

 Flower 2^ in. long ; tube funnel-shaped, ^-J in. long aud broad ; 



